awesome-pdf
github.com/karllhughes/awesome-pdf ↗A collection of high-quality libraries, links, and resources for developers working with PDFs 🕶
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Guides and Tutorials
- Acrobat Library
Acrobat guides and tutorials.
- Convert PDF to Audio
Guide to text to speech conversion with Python.
- Creating a PDF in Swift with PDFKit
PDF tutorial using Apple’s PDFKit.
- Creating PDF Files in Java
Java tutorial using iText and PdfBox.
- Hand-coded PDF Tutorial
Technical overview on working with PDFs.
- HTML node tree to PDF tutorial
Convert an HTML node tree to PDF using jsPDF and html2canvas.
APIs
- Actual Reports
API for transactional PDF generation.
- ConvertAPI PowerPoint2Pdf API
Convert PowerPoint to PDF files using any of nine languages.
- DocRaptor
HTML to PDF API.
- DOCX to PDF API
Convert Word to PDF.
- edocr
Use documents to generate leads.
- Excel2Pdf API
Convert Excel docs to PDF files.
Software
- Adobe Acrobat
Tools from the original creators of the PDF format.
- Apache FOP
Formatting objects processor that supports PDFs.
- Foxit Software
Multiple PDF-related products and other resources.
- XpdfReader
Free PDF viewer and toolkit.
Tools
- AllPDFMagicMisc
Free online PDF toolbox with 33+ tools and AI-powered workflows. Merge, split, compress, convert, edit, sign, and protect PDFs with zero signup. Features AI Summarizer, Invoice Extractor, Contract Analyzer, and Multi-PDF Chat.
- backslideConverters
Presentation creator using Markdown and converting to PDF.
- Brainiall PDF to Markdown ActionConverters
GitHub Action that converts PDF files to Markdown through the hosted Brainiall API.
- CleverPDFConverters
File converter with a good selection of formats.
- ClientPDFMisc
Free, client-side tool to merge PDF files entirely in the browser via pdf-lib. No upload, no signup, no server.
- Convert PDF OnlineConverters
Convert to and from multiple formats, and several other features.
Libraries
- Apache PDFBoxJava
PDF manipulation and command line utilities.
- Apple PDFKitSwift
Framework for Swift and Objective-C.
- boxpdfJavaScript
Memory optimized, streaming, flexbox JS PDF library.
- CAM-PDFPerl
Read and write PDF files.
- clj-pdfMisc/Multi-language
Clojure PDF generation.
- CombinePDFRuby
Combine, parse, number, and watermark PDFs in Ruby.
Credits/Other lists
- awesome-list-pdf-creation
A good selection of PDF resources.
- awesome-pdf
Long list of resources, including many open-source projects.
Documentation
- DC Developer Resources
Documentation for PDF Library SDK and others.
- Understanding PDF Standards
PDF standards compliance.
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