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I built an AI-powered PDF generation API — here's how

DEV Community·Sanidhya·about 1 month ago
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PDF generation from code is still painful in 2026. You either wrestle with complex libraries that need 200+ lines for a simple invoice, or pay for bloated enterprise services. So I built PDFGen AI — a simple REST API where you send HTML and get a PDF URL back. Or better — describe what you want in plain English and AI generates the template for you. The Problem Every developer who's tried to generate PDFs programmatically knows the pain: wkhtmltopdf — outdated, rendering issues, painful to install on servers Puppeteer/Playwright — powerful but heavy, needs headless Chrome jsPDF — client-side only, limited styling PDFKit — low-level, you're drawing rectangles manually Paid services — $50-200/month for what should be a simple API call All I wanted was: send HTML, get a PDF . That's it.…

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