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DocRaptor: Simple, high quality HTML to PDF and Excel XLS API. DocRaptor makes it easy to convert HTML to PDF and XLS format. Choose your document format, select configuration options and make an HTTP POST request to our server. DocRaptor returns your file in a matter of seconds. We provide extensive documentation and examples to get you started, and our API makes it easy to use DocRaptor to generate PDF and Excel files in your own web applications; wkhtmltopdf: Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit). wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.

DocRaptor and wkhtmltopdf belong to "File Conversion" category of the tech stack.

wkhtmltopdf is an open source tool with 8.39K GitHub stars and 1.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to wkhtmltopdf's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is DocRaptor?

    DocRaptor makes it easy to convert HTML to PDF and XLS format. Choose your document format, select configuration options and make an HTTP POST request to our server. DocRaptor returns your file in a matter of seconds. We provide extensive documentation and examples to get you started, and our API makes it easy to use DocRaptor to generate PDF and Excel files in your own web applications.

    What is wkhtmltopdf?

    wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.

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