PDF generation from code is still painful in 2026. You either wrestle with complex libraries that need 200+ lines for a simple invoice, or pay for bloated enterprise services.

So I built PDFGen AI — a simple REST API where you send HTML and get a PDF URL back. Or better — describe what you want in plain English and AI generates the template for you.

The Problem

Every developer who's tried to generate PDFs programmatically knows the pain:

wkhtmltopdf — outdated, rendering issues, painful to install on servers

Puppeteer/Playwright — powerful but heavy, needs headless Chrome

jsPDF — client-side only, limited styling

PDFKit — low-level, you're drawing rectangles manually

Paid services — $50-200/month for what should be a simple API call

All I wanted was: send HTML, get a PDF .…