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How To Perform PDF Manipulation and Creation Using JavaScript
Use the power of PDF-Lib in Node.js
Introduction
What is PDF-Lib and why use it?
Assume that you own a successful online business. In such a place, you would need to generate invoices and email them to your customers. To create a receipt for each buyer, you would have to do the following:
- Open your word processor and paste the user’s personal information.
- Write the user’s purchases in a table and calculate the total.
- Next, download this file and convert it to PDF format.
- In the end, email this document to the user.
Sure, that might work. But consider this: what if you get hundreds of customers in a single day? This would waste a lot of time and energy since you’re doing the same process over and over again. So, how do we mitigate this problem?
The best way to do solve this issue is to automate this operation by using a library. This is where PDF-Lib comes in. It is an open source, easy-to-use library that allows developers to generate PDF documents using a Node.js environment.
Now that we have talked about its fruition, let’s get started!
