Gotenberg
Send a document, receive a PDF: Gotenberg is a Docker-based, stateless HTTP conversion API
trusted in production by thousands of companies and adopted by notable open-source projects.
Send files as multipart/form-data, get a PDF back; Chromium, LibreOffice, and fonts are the
container's problem, not yours. Headless Chromium handles URLs, HTML templates, and Markdown
with pixel-perfect browser rendering: it executes JavaScript, loads web fonts, waits for
network idle, a JS expression, or a DOM selector before rendering SPAs, and accepts injected
cookies and HTTP headers for authenticated pages. LibreOffice converts 100+ office formats -
.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, and legacy formats - with page-range extraction and PDF/A archival
conformance. Built-in PDF engines round out the pipeline in every image variant: merge, split,
rotate, flatten, encrypt, watermark, stamp, read/write metadata and bookmarks, plus
Factur-X/ZUGFeRD e-invoicing and PDF/UA accessibility compliance. Screenshots of URLs and HTML
come from the same endpoints. Zero-transfer pipelines stream files directly between S3, MinIO,
or GCS presigned URLs and Gotenberg, bypassing your application entirely, and webhooks enable
async processing. Statelessness means horizontal scaling is trivial - run as many replicas as
your conversion volume demands. Three image variants (full, Chromium-only, LibreOffice-only)
trim the footprint to what you actually use.
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