Open Source Python PDF Generation Libraries

PDF Arranger is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. PDF Arranger is a fork of Konstantinos Poulios’s PDF Shuffler (see Savannah or Sourceforge). It’s a humble attempt to make the project a bit more active.

pikepdf is a Python library allowing the creation, manipulation, and repair of PDFs. It provides a Pythonic wrapper around the C++ PDF content transformation library, QPDF. Python + QPDF = “py” + “qpdf” = “pyqpdf”, which looks like a dyslexia test and is no fun to type. But say “pyqpdf” out loud, and it sounds like “pikepdf”. pikepdf is a library intended for developers who want to create, manipulate, parse, repair, and abuse the PDF format. It supports reading and write PDFs, including creating from scratch. Thanks to QPDF, it supports linearizing PDFs and access to encrypted PDFs.

WeasyPrint is a smart solution helping people to create PDF documents. You can generate gorgeous statistical reports, invoices, tickets, and anything you want as long as you have some webdesign skills! Design your documents just as you design your websites! WeasyPrint follows the widely used HTML and CSS specifications from the W3C. You can use your usual web tools, languages and frameworks, but for print. Creating high-quality digital documents requires features that you love to use as readers, tables of contents, links, annotations, optimized images, attachments, WeasyPrint provides many features out of the box, and even gives you the possibility to add your own ways to customize your PDF files. Digital fonts are finely tuned pieces of artwork. To give to your documents the subtle touch they deserve, carefully choose the options you want, kerning, ligatures, old-style numbers, tabular figures, ordinals, etc.

The open source PDF stitching software for sewists, by sewists. PDFSticher is a utility for stitching together many PDF pages from one document into a single page. This is also called "N-Up" or page imposition. This program was created in order to convert sewing patterns into a convenient format for projecting, though it could be used to stitch together any PDF. Since version 0.4, it is also possible to select layers for inclusion/exclusion in the final output. Additionally, line properties can be modified for each layer if the input PDF is compatible.

borb is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in python. borb is a pure python library to read, write, and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like data structure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives (numbers, string, booleans, etc) This is currently a one-man project, so the focus will always be to support those use-cases that are more common in favor of those that are rare.

xhtml2pdf enables users to generate PDF documents from HTML content easily and with automated flow control such as pagination and keeping text together. The Python module can be used in any Python environment, including Django. The Command line tool is a stand-alone program that can be executed from the command line.

fpdf2 is a library for simple & fast PDF document generation in Python. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is fast, versatile, easy to learn and to extend (example). It is also entirely written in Python and has very few dependencies: Pillow, defusedxml, & fontTools. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF.

Generate ten different malicious PDF files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh. Used for penetration testing and/or red-teaming etc. I created this tool because I needed a third-party tool to generate a bunch of PDF files with various links.

PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF: "Free"-PDF, a well-known PDFlib-extension replacement with many examples, scripts, and derivatives). Compared with other PDF libraries, PyFPDF is simple, small, and versatile, with advanced capabilities, and is easy to learn, extend and maintain.

Reporting engine library written in C. Create one XML file and generate PDF, HTML, TXT, and CSV reports based on queries. Has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC. Bindings for PHP, Java, Python.

FlyPDF is a shared object library (.so) which allows to generate PDF files without using any PDF library as dependency. You may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs. FlyPDF has other advantages: high level functions.

Fully OO python PDF generation library.

reppy is a PDF-Report Generator for databases (MySQL, Postgres, CSV) written in Python. The report definition is based on an XML-template, which can be edited with the included program XTRed. It needs the python library reportlab for pdf-creation.

Library to generate pdf archive contend billet for the net bank Brazilian.