PrecisionPDF

A featureful, efficient library for generating PDFs. Use the HTML and CSS that you already use for web pages to make pixel perfect PDFs.

A tool for every application

Terminal: Generate PDFs in a terminal. Easy to install, efficient to run, simple to use.

In your application: PrecisionPDF integrates into your codebase, making PDFs easily and quickly.

Web APIs: PrecisionPDF provides a web API for generating PDFs. Call this API from any language, and get PDFs quickly.

Comparisons

PrecisionPDF was designed to fit into a niche somewhere between the existing solutions that solve this problem:

  • Weasyprint is a great free solution for Python apps. PrecisionPDF aims to offer a similar workflow, with a focus on performance, memory efficiency, and standards compliance.

  • PrinceXML is a commercial solution.

  • PDFReactor is a commercial solution that runs on the JVM.

  • Apryse HTML2PDF is a commercial solution, appearing to pair a packaged version of Chromium with PDF postprocessing.