Prawn is a fast, tiny, and nimble PDF generator for Ruby

Wicked PDF uses the shell utility wkhtmltopdf to serve a PDF file to a user from HTML. In other words, rather than dealing with a PDF generation DSL of some sort, you simply write an HTML view as you would normally, and let Wicked take care of the hard stuff.

Uses wkhtmltopdf to create PDFs using HTML

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe

json_resume creates pretty resume formats from a .json input file. Currently, it can convert to html, tex, markdown and pdf. Customizing the templates to your own needs is also super easy.

git-scribe is a workflow tool for starting, writing, reviewing and publishing multiple forms of a book. it allows you to use asciidoc plain text markup to write, review and translate a work and provides a simple toolkit for generating common digital outputs for publishing - epub, mobi, pdf and html. \ it is also integrated into github functionality, letting you automate the publishing and collaboration process.

git-scribe is a workflow tool for starting, writing, reviewing and publishing multiple forms of a book. it allows you to use asciidoc plain text markup to write, review and translate a work and provides a simple toolkit for generating common digital outputs for publishing - epub, mobi, pdf and html. it is also integrated into github functionality, letting you automate the publishing and collaboration process.

HexaPDF is a pure Ruby library with an accompanying application for working with PDF files. In short, it allows creating new PDF files, manipulating existing PDF files, merging multiple PDF files into one, extracting meta information, text, images and files from PDF files, securing PDF files by encrypting them and optimizing PDF files for smaller file size or other criteria. HexaPDF was designed with ease of use and performance in mind. It uses lazy loading and lazy computing when possible and tries to produce small PDF files by default.

HexaPDF is a pure Ruby library with an accompanying application for working with PDF files. In short, it allows creating new PDF files, manipulating existing PDF files, merging multiple PDF files into one, extracting meta information, text, images and files from PDF files, securing PDF files by encrypting them and optimizing PDF files for smaller file size or other criteria. HexaPDF was designed with ease of use and performance in mind. It uses lazy loading and lazy computing when possible and tries to produce small PDF files by default.

An add-on converter for Asciidoctor that converts AsciiDoc documents to PDF using the Prawn PDF generation library.

Super simple and fast PDF invoicing in pure Ruby (based on Prawn library).

Transform HTML into PDF/PNG/JPEG using Google Puppeteer/Chromium

A nifty gem, in pure Ruby, to parse PDF files and combine (merge) them with other PDF files, number the pages, watermark them or stamp them, create tables, add basic text objects etc` (all using the PDF file format).

A framework for creating e-books from Markdown using Ruby. Using the Prince PDF generator, you'll be able to get high quality PDFs. Also supports EPUB, Mobi, Text and HTML generation.

A framework for creating e-books from Markdown/Textile text markup using Ruby. Using the Prince PDF generator, you'll be able to get high quality PDFs.

Utility for converting markup files to pdf files. Useful for reports etc.

PDF content extraction tool and library.

Maruku is a Markdown interpreter in Ruby. It features native export to HTML and PDF (via Latex). The output is really beautiful!

Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf)

extract tables from PDF files