Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ConvertToPDF
Sub-60ms HTML to PDF API built on bare-metal Rust
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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PDFShift▲386Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.
2018 · pdfshift.io · its alternatives →
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Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.
2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →
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I needed to generate invoices in a Node.js app. jsPDF is 229KB. I only needed text, rectangles, lines, and JPEG images. So I wrote tinypdf: <400 lines of TypeScript, zero dependencies, 3.3KB minified+gzipped. What it does: - Text (Helvetica, colors, alignment) - Rectangles and lines - JPEG images - Multiple pages, custom sizes What it doesn't do: - Custom fonts, PNG/SVG, forms, encryption, HTML-to-PDF That's it. The 95% use case for invoices, receipts, reports, tickets, and labels. GitHub: https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf npm: npm install tinypdf
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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May 2026 · pdf2md.deepdiy.net · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…
2018 · its alternatives →
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A reliable, intuitive and productive PDF tool for ChromeOS
2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I built Rudoc because I wanted a smaller tool for simple file convertion workflow. (Pandoc was so heavy for me) I once wanted to try Pandoc, but after I downloaded it from GitHub, I found that it is around 70 MB. It also needed a lot of dependencies. Rudoc is not a substitue of Pandoc, it supports limited set of formats (only txt, md, html, typ, docx, pdf, pptx, xml, json) and doesn't support advanced formatting. The most common workflow is just turn a markdown file to a html. PDF generation can work without Typst, but PDF input conversion requires Typst as a backend. It has no other runtime…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transform your HTML into a modern PDF file in seconds & fast
2024 · renderpdf.io · its alternatives →
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If you just want to use it, try here - https://pdf2md.trieve.ai . I think the LLM's are astoundingly good at converting complex powerpoint style infographics. I wouldn't normally think folks on HN would find this interesting as the general concept has been posted about already in the past few months. We were heavily inspired by Zerox[1]. However, the stack we went with was fun and over-engineered which is more likely to create interesting discussion. We use all the same tools at Trieve (our main product), but wanted to see if they would be a good fit for something that needed to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HelloPDF v2▲12An incredible and simple pdf converter built for everyone
2019 · hellopdf.co · its alternatives →
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using XPDF, pdftojson extracts text from PDF files as JSON, including word bounding boxes. - ldenoue/pdftojson
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ImageToPDFNow is a tool to convert IMAGE to PDF
Aug 2026 · imagetopdfnow.com · its alternatives →
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TextToPDF.net is a tool to convert text to PDF & vice-versa
Apr 2026 · texttopdf.net · its alternatives →
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