Show HN: Leafwright – Generate PDFs without running headless Chrome

Category: devtools

Tags: pdf-generation, api, serverless, html-to-pdf

Score: 4.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 4, Documentation: 3, Utility: 5)

Leafwright is a hosted HTML-to-PDF API that offloads headless Chrome rendering to their infrastructure, letting serverless functions generate PDFs via a simple POST request. While the approach is practical for environments where running Chromium is cumbersome, it's essentially a managed wrapper around existing rendering engines rather than a novel technical solution.

Target audience: backend developers

Repository: https://leafwright.co

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