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PDF generation / edit - SpongeB0B - Jul-27-2021 Hi everyone, I made a little website with flask, now I would like to generate a pdf (static) with the content of that website. By static I mean that I will generate the PDF once, not the user. Ideally I'm looking for a package that can edit a PDF, as such I can build a base with a regular program with a GUI and insert afterward text, image etc.. with that package.. any ideas ? sorry the question might be already asked but I couldn't find it with the search engine as it need at least characters (PDF) :/ RE: PDF generation / edit - Larz60+ - Jul-27-2021 There are several packages available for this: Probably the most famous and comprehensive is reportlab (and perhaps most complex to use). It's a commercial product, but has a free community edition here: https://www.reportlab.com/dev/opensource/ Easier to use, is pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ can convert to and from a lot of different formats. see examples here: https://pandoc.org/demos.html If your data can be displayed as a dataframe, then without a doubt, pandas is the way to go: Use read html: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_html.html and then docstring: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/development/contributing_docstring.html?highlight=write%20pdf There is some conversion needed here to get from docstring to pdf, but you can find that with google. There are a lot of packages avail in PyPi you will have to visit those that look promising to find right one see: https://pypi.org/search/?q=pdf&o= Never forget google, use following (include quotes in search): "python pdf creation" RE: PDF generation / edit - SpongeB0B - Jul-28-2021 Thanks again @Larz60+ , Actually I didn't g00gle it, but asked the Duck instead and doing so, I've found : FPDF2 and more precisely how add content to an existing .pdf https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ExistingPDFs.html I will let a little review of this package here when I'm done.