Q: What's the easiest and fastest way to take Web Page, HTML and Images and turn it into PDF file us
A: To convert HTML or web pages to PDF, you can use a variety of open source tools and libraries. Here are a few options:
Puppeteer: Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default but can be configured to run non-headless. You can generate a PDF of any web page that Puppeteer can browse.
Here is a simple example of how to use Puppeteer to generate a PDF from a webpage:
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async () => {
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('http://example.com', {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'});
await page.pdf({path: 'example.pdf', format: 'A4'});
await browser.close();
})();Puppeteer Github Repo: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
wkhtmltopdf: wkhtmltopdf is an open source command line tool to render HTML into PDF using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. It runs entirely "headless" and does not require a display or display service.
#####Here is a simple example of how to use wkhtmltopdf:
wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf
wkhtmltopdf Github Repo: https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf
WeasyPrint: WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. It is based on various libraries but not on a full rendering engine like Blink, Gecko or WebKit. The CSS layout engine is written in Python, designed for pagination, and meant to be easy to hack on.
Here is a simple example of how to use WeasyPrint:
from weasyprint import HTML
HTML('http://weasyprint.org/').write_pdf('/tmp/weasyprint-website.pdf')
WeasyPrint Github Repo: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrintPlease note that for images, you can use libraries like ImageMagick or PIL/Pillow in Python to convert images to PDF. These tools are open source and can be easily used in your projects.
For ImageMagick, the command would look like this:
convert image.jpg output.pdf
For Pillow, the Python code would look like this:
from PIL import Image
image1 = Image.open(r'pathwhere the image is stored\image name.file extension')
im1 = image1.convert('RGB')
im1.save(r'path where the pdf will be stored\new file name.pdf') Again, please be aware of the limitations and legal implications of scraping and generating PDFs from web pages. Always respect copyright and terms of service.
Last updated