Native Elixir PDF Utilities

Native Elixir PDF Utilities is a small library for developers who need practical PDF building blocks without command line tools.

PDFs are useful, awkward, and full of edge cases. This project focuses on the common structural work that Elixir applications often need: reading PDF bytes, understanding the object stream, extracting embedded text when it is available, and combining documents in a predictable way.

The goal is not to be a full PDF engine overnight. It is a steadily improving toolkit, handled by an excited developer who wants this to become a dependable native Elixir option for day-to-day PDF utility work.

Package and Docs

What It Does

Tokenizer - turns PDF byte streams into structured Elixir tokens.
Merger - combines multiple PDF binaries into a fresh PDF with rewritten object references.
Reader and text extraction - strictly resolve embedded Unicode text from classic and modern PDFs.
HTML to PDF - renders a strict, document-oriented HTML/CSS subset to native PDF bytes without Chromium, wkhtmltopdf, Node, Rust, Python, OS packages, or SaaS calls.

See the documentation for feature guides and quick reference.

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:native_elixir_pdf_utilities, "~> 0.9.0"}
  ]
end

Development

Run the complete supported-version quality matrix before contributing:

./scripts/quality-matrix

The matrix compiles and tests the supported Elixir versions, enforces formatting and 100% coverage, runs Dialyzer, and compares HTML-to-PDF fixtures with Chromium. See the contribution guide for prerequisites, quicker installed-version checks, and result interpretation.

License

The library source is MIT licensed. See LICENSE. Bundled DejaVu font files use the Bitstream Vera license in priv/fonts/dejavu/LICENSE.txt. Generated WHATWG character-reference data retains its BSD 3-Clause license in priv/licenses/WHATWG-BSD-3-Clause.txt.