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Show HN: Automatically fill PDF templates per API (doqs.dev)
22 points by dnnsthnnr on Aug 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments


I've been looking for a library similar to this. Love the idea, but cannot post to SaaS. Too bad it's subscription only


Then you might be interested in my application that I posted here the other day. It's mainly a GUI application for power users, but it also has a console application so you can integrate it into your workflow. The JSON support I had added as an additional feature, but to my knowledge it is not used by anyone yet (at least I had no support mails about it). Oh, and it works without cloud and can be used completely offline (after one-time online activation, if you want to remove the demo watermark).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999358


Why can't you post to a SaaS? Would love to know more.


Guessing data security constraints -- I'm likely in a similar boat.


I am curious what is your tech setup? Running on the dedicated server or cloud, which programming languages and libraries are you using?


I am running on python and AWS Lambda. Works really smooth battle tested it with 100 pdf pages and 400 fields to be merged and the Pdf is generated within 2 seconds. And I am currently using one of the lowest resource settings on AWS Lambda.

I am mostly using pikepdf and the a lot of secret sauce added ;)


I am not OP but pdftk is one of the best libraries I found for this. You can package the binary and run it on a server somewhere.


Awesome idea, but website seems unstable. Wasn't able to login after sign-up :/


Yes I still have problems with the activation mail. Need to fix this, currently rely on my own SMTP which is not a good idea. Should move to a service.

Is it working for you now?


I'm getting a variety of CORS errors in console. Maybe this helps:

``` Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.doqs.dev/v1/organization' from origin 'https://app.doqs.dev' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. ```


Omg, thats awkward. Should not have happened. Its working now :)




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