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ActivePDF Alternative for PDF Generation

Published Jan 19, 2019

Intro

ActivePDF is a popular PDF manipulation product for .NET developers. They offer a suite of products, which among them, allow you to manipulate / edit existing PDFs, generate new PDFs, convert HTML to PDFs, extract data out of existing PDFs, compression, and converting PDFs to images just to name a few. It’s a powerful product with some big name sponsors behind them.

However, I can’t actually tell you how much it costs since you have to contact sales. That seems silly.

Alternative to ActivePDF for HTML to PDF Conversion and More

ActivePDF offers a lot of functionality that .NET developers appreciate, no doubt, but we have found that is overkill and overpriced for most use-cases out there. If you are looking for just any of the following, you’ve come to the right place.

Convert HTML to PDF
Convert Web Page or URL to PDF
Convert Word Docs and other Microsoft Office files to PDF
Merge PDFs together
Generate bar codes / qr codes

API2PDF is a REST API that allows you to generate PDFs at massive scale. It is built on Amazon’s Lambda compute service for extreme, enterprise reliability. We are a wrapper for popular and open source PDF rendering engines Headless Chrome, wkhtmltopdf, and LibreOffice. These are the engines you know best – and now we just make them extremely easy to interact with and scale.

How does $1/mo + usage cost sound? Most of our customers spend less than $2/mo on our product.

Check out our .NET client library on Github and get started in minutes. No need to talk to a sales rep. Give it a try!