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PDF generation API, minus the infra hassle

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    PDFShift391

    Convert any HTML to PDF with a single POST request.

    2018

  2. 2PA

    Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark, edit, and flatten a document — all in one call. Available actions [2]: - PDF Generator - PDF Converter - Image Converter - OCR - Watermark - Merge - Split - Duplicate - Delete - Flatten Our…

    2022

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    Render HTML to PDF without the headache of infrastructure

    2021

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    The PDF Generation API for Developers

    Nov 2025

  5. 5DO

    Hi, This is a very early preview of a new project, I think it could be very useful. Would love to hear some feedback/comments

    2023 · github.com

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    PDF generation API without the Chromium headache

    Jun 2026 · pdfpipe.xyz

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    Docuowl152

    Generate static documentation from Markdown files

    2021

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    Twilio for PDFs: esign, fill, generate PDFs with one API

    2021

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    Docparser194

    Convert PDFs and scanned documents into structured data

    2016

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    Generate images and PDFs with simple API

    2021

  11. 11DC
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    The developer-friendly HTML to PDF API

    2020

  13. 13TA

    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

  14. 14IG

    Hi HN! I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past year: Docland. It is an API documentation browser that generates documentation on demand (through compilation, not LLMs) for Java packages. Instead of relying on Javadoc, the built-in doc generator, I created the engine from scratch to give the documentations a modern look, build fast search indexes, and enable link resolution to other packages. I built Docland because I constantly found it frustrating to locate and view API definitions when programming. You'd have to Google the function/class name, skip all the SEO…

    2024 · docland.io

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    HTML to PDF API — iframes, SPAs/React, complex JS

    Nov 2025

  16. 16OS

    hey hn, i’m alana, founder of basecase and creator of docbase www.getdocbase.com docbase is an open-source alternative to docsend, which lets you securely share documents and track engagement in real-time. with docbase, you can upload any document, get a secure link (with or without a password or expiration date), and view who interacts with it and when. one main use case is for founders to send their memos/decks to potential investors. as a founder and investor myself, it’s a tool i use all the time to both send and receive pitch documents. the idea came from a tweet [0], which…

    2023 · github.com

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    Doczen3

    Free AI-Powered PDF Tools – Merge, Convert, Compress & Edit

    Jul 2026

  18. 18AA
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    Stop guessing CSS. HTML to PDF API with Live Preview.

    Jan 2026

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    Free PDF tools with German servers. No signup needed.

    Mar 2026 · pdfmonster.de

  21. 21FA

    Hi HN, Like everyone, I'm working on an product that uses LLMs to extract data from photos and documents. Part of the processing pipeline is extracting data from PDFs as raw text or a raster image. As part of our leadgen strategy, we've opened our REST API that lets you process pages of a PDF. The API is completely free to use anonymously, but is rate limited to 1 page per 30 seconds. Creating a free account removes this restriction. The two endpoints are: - https://extract.dev/api/pages/extract/raster - Rasterize a page of a PDF -…

    Oct 2025

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    Free All-in-One PDF Converter & Editor

    Nov 2025

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    pdfyr3

    Privacy-first PDF tools with a REST API

    Jun 2026 · pdfyr.com

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    Convert HTML to clean PDFs with one simple API call

    Dec 2025

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