Gotenberg

A Docker-based API for converting documents to PDF

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Gotenberg is a Docker-based API for converting documents to PDF. Trusted in production by thousands of companies. Also adopted by notable open-source projects.

Send your files via multipart/form-data, get a PDF back. No need to manage Chromium, LibreOffice, or fonts yourself.

Quick Start

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 gotenberg/gotenberg:8

Convert a URL to PDF:

curl \
  --request POST http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/url \
  --form url=https://sparksuite.github.io/simple-html-invoice-template/ \
  -o invoice.pdf

Features

• HTML, URL, Markdown to PDF via Headless Chromium
• Office documents to PDF via LibreOffice (100+ formats)
• Merge, split, rotate, flatten PDFs
• Watermark, stamp, encrypt PDFs
• PDF/A and PDF/UA compliance
• Screenshots of URLs and HTML
• Read/write metadata and bookmarks

See the full documentation.

Contributing

• Contributing guide: CONTRIBUTING.md
• Bug reports: GitHub Issues
• Questions and feedback: GitHub Discussions
• Security vulnerabilities: SECURITY.md

Sponsors

If Gotenberg powers your workflow or your business, consider becoming a sponsor.

Historic & GitHub Sponsors

• TheCodingMachine
• pdfme
• PDFBolt
• FileToPDF.dev

Powered By

• Docker
• JetBrains