Node.js native module bindings for PoDoFo
npm install nopodofo
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NoPoDoFo is a bindings library to PoDoFo, hence the name No(de)PoDoFo. The aim of this project it to bring a complete PDF solution
to the Nodejs ecosystem. NoPoDoFo provides low level PDF api's for creating new PDF documents, and reading and modifying
existing PDF documents. Features also include encryption, signing, and drawing api's
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NoPoDoFo is a bindings library for NodeJS to PoDoFo. The project began mid 2017 stemming from my own frustration at the lack of
open source options in the NodeJS ecosystem for handling PDF creation and modifications. I had at the time written many scripts
for invoking command line utilities from node, such as pdftk and poppler to perform one-off tasks, but as the company I was with
at the time started adopting more and more NodeJS the need for a complete PDF library was becoming increasingly apparent, and nobody
at the time, at least in the open, was doing any work to fill this void, and thus NoPoDoFo was born.
PoDoFo was chosen as the underlying engine (not really sure if engine is the correct term but it's what we will use for now) after
considering the ease of building PoDoFo, and the completeness of the api compared to similar lower lever libraries.
NoPoDoFo is licensed under AGPL, a copy of which is available at the root directory of the project.
NoPoDoFo bindings /src follow as closely as possible the same folder structure as PoDoFo.
NoPoDoFo provides a definitions file included in the repository; typescript style enums, types, and interfaces
are also available and exported from index.js.
Using NoPoDoFo as a stand alone library is possible, but the api is fairly low level requiring some familiarity
with the PDF specification. It is my hope that NoPoDoFo will be used as a building block for higher level PDF libraries
for the NodeJS ecosystem.