Gotenberg
Released under MIT, Gotenberg provides developer-friendly API to interact on self-hosted infrastructure.
Overview
A developer-friendly API for converting many document formats into PDF files, and more! A Docker-based API for PDF conversion Gotenberg A Docker-based API for converting documents to PDF
Documentation · Live Demo · Community The project has 12K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.
Key Features
Source: GitHub README
- HTML, URL, Markdown to PDF via Headless Chromium
- Office documents to PDF via LibreOffice (100+ formats)
- Merge, split, rotate, flatten PDFs
- Watermark, stamp, encrypt PDFs
- PDF/A and PDF/UA compliance
- Screenshots of URLs and HTML
- Read/write metadata and bookmarks
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 gotenberg/gotenberg:8curl \
--request POST http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/url \
--form url=https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/ \
-o invoice.pdfNormalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
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