Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TinyDOCX – Word/ODT library (14x smaller than docx)
After posting tinypdf here, someone opened an issue asking for Word/OpenOffice support. I understand - sometimes you need an editable document, not a PDF. I didn't want to extend the library itself, so I built tinydocx: <1K lines of TypeScript, zero dependencies, 7.7KB minified+gzipped. The popular docx package is 108KB with 5 dependencies. What's included: - Text formatting (bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, colors, custom fonts) - Headings (H1-H6) - Tables with borders and column widths - Bullet and numbered lists (with nesting) - Images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP) -…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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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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This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just shipped 1.0. A lot of existing approaches convert .docx into HTML and lose document semantics along the way. Our editor parses OOXML directly and uses its own rendering+layout engine to produce paged documents with html/css. Edits round-trip back to .docx, so you’re always editing the document, not its representation. The core rendering engine is framework agnostic, with React and Vue ui adapters on top. It’s Apache 2.0. Happy to answer questions.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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lit▲265World's smallest responsive CSS framework (398 bytes!)
2018 · ajusa.github.io · its alternatives →
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We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch. Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Word in web is a pure JS docx editor/renderer benched against MS Word directly. This was largely inspired by Eigenpal going closed source, and some personal frustrations I had with working on complex Word templates, pleading papers, etc... and not having a clean way to view/edit them without owning MS Word (which I did just eventually buy but it sucked). This was also an exercise in highlighting the value of good evals for Agents to bench against. Instead of just throwing the OOXML standard at an agent and letting it spin, I put together a large corpus of Microsoft Word docs -…
Jul 2026 · word-in-web.com · its alternatives →
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We're building version control software for Microsoft Office documents that works as well as Git and GitHub do for code. Today, we’re releasing the first component, Draftable for Word, an Office add-in that lets you generate side-by-side diffs, and makes it way less painful to work with Track Changes. Our diffs are designed to look right to humans — instead of machines — showing changes as they might actually have been made by an editor. We'd love to hear your feedback. We’d also love to fix what you find painful about authoring and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents, so get in…
2013 · draftable.com · its alternatives →
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sheet2doc▲79No more manually filling out Word documents
2020 · sheet2doc-com.l.ink · its alternatives →
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Docup is a single JavaScript file that fetches Markdown file and renders it as a beautiful one-page documentation.
2020 · docup.now.sh · its alternatives →
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Hundred Docs▲17Hey HN, I’m Carlos, dev & designer behind Hundred Docs. Here’s the deal: I’ve spent way too many days fighting PDFs in production. Two things drove me crazy: 1. Most doc tools give total freedom → anyone can make a layout disaster + UX is terrible. 2. PDF libraries are a nightmare to integrate So I hacked something that actually works: - You describe the doc in plain English - AI turns it into an editable template - Non-tech folks can tweak it visually - Devs just POST JSON to an API → get a professional PDF back Would love to hear what you think about the product idea and your experience…
Dec 2025 · hundredocs.com · its alternatives →
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ASMLE - Bootable Wordle in 512 bytes! Contribute to KatPurpy/asmle development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Web2docx▲5We, at Veneficus[0], build Web2Docx (http://www.web2docx.com) as an internal side project because we want to generate good looking, Word compliant reports for our clients programmatically. Since these reports contain a wide array of markup, charts and our company branding one of our primary concerns was the compatibility with Word. Our insights are of no value when they can't be seen. Therefore, we have made significant effort to match our output with Word 2010 as close as possible. We are succeeding at doing this. We are now ready to share this functionality and I'd like to ask the HN…
2025 · web2docx.com · its alternatives →
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I have always searched for a simple tool which can convert a MD document to a well styled small PDF, just like a GitHub Readme. This was inspired by TinyPDF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968 I also used this project to get familiar with agentic coding, which I had dreaded before. mdpdf supports: - using the included PDF fonts to generate tiny valid PDFs - outputs as A4 or Letter depending on your locale - plenty of common MD syntax: code blocks, inline code, lists, tables, and jpg and png images That's it. It covers probably most of the use cases and can help to…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ILoveDox▲3Free DOCX to PDF API with Word-like formatting for Developer
May 2026 · ilovedox.com · its alternatives →
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With OCR (optical character recognition)
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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React-print-pdf is a new open-source library that simplifies PDF creation with React. You can design your PDFs like a website, integrate data from your database to your documents, and reuse community components and templates or build your own. Created by three friends who were frustrated by existing solutions and wanted to make PDF creation easier for everyone. Now it’s yours. What are your thoughts on it ?!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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23 free, private browser tools with zero file uploads
Aug 2026 · getminitools.com · its alternatives →
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Offline Image & Doc Converter: 27 Formats, Privacy First
2025 · imagematrix.net · its alternatives →
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