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PDFCraft
PDF generation and PDF extraction. No AI in either.
Two directions, one API key. HTML or a URL in, PDF out in ~120ms from real Chromium. PDF in, structured JSON out — tables, labelled fields, and a bounding box on every value. No OCR and no LLM, so the same document always gives the same answer.
Hi everyone — I'm Gaurav, and I built PDFCraft solo.
It does two things, and they're the same problem in opposite directions.
HTML → PDF. POST some HTML or a URL, get a PDF back from a real pinned Chromium. Margins, headers, footers, page ranges, wait-for-selector, authenticated pages via headers and cookies. The definition-of-done curl returns a valid PDF in 116ms — because the browser is long-lived with a fresh context per render, not launched per request. That one decision is most of the speed.
PDF → JSON. POST a PDF, get its tables and labelled fields back as structured data, with a bounding box on every value so you can point at exactly where on the page a number came from.
Here's the part I'd argue about in the comments: extraction uses no OCR and no LLM. It's geometric — text runs grouped into lines, lines split into columns on whitespace, a table detected as consecutive lines sharing a column count. Two consequences. The same document always produces the same JSON, byte for byte. And the cost doesn't scale with model prices, which is why 2,000 pages is $9 instead of $30.
A 14-page bank statement comes back as one table of 560 rows — headers stitched, the 13 repeated ones dropped — in about 190ms. A resume I tested extracted 7 of 7 fields byte-identical to the source.
What it won't do: there's no OCR. A scan has no text layer, so it returns an honest 422 and you're not billed for it. It's built for documents — invoices, statements, reports — not for scraping marketing pages.
Free tier is 100/month, no card. The playground runs against the live API with a shared demo key, so you can try both directions without signing up.
Happy to go deep on any of it — especially if you think the no-AI call is wrong.
About PDFCraft on Product Hunt
“PDF generation and PDF extraction. No AI in either.”
PDFCraft was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Two directions, one API key. HTML or a URL in, PDF out in ~120ms from real Chromium. PDF in, structured JSON out — tables, labelled fields, and a bounding box on every value. No OCR and no LLM, so the same document always gives the same answer.
On the analytics side, PDFCraft competes within Productivity, API and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PDFCraft performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PDFCraft?
PDFCraft was hunted by Gaurav Singh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of PDFCraft including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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