Agreed. I spent a bit of time writing out a script for similar functionality for one of our business units, but I never was able to figure out how to convert excel sheets to a PDF to be able to merge them in the allotted time, so it just doesn’t support them lol.
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TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Are there ways to use it via an API? In particular I’d love to be able to programmatically submit a Word or Excel document and receive a PDF back
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Maybe there’s some way to use selenium or something like that so that it stays local.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My work processes PDFs from government sites, filling them out for end users automatically. Would be cool if the API could do this somehow. Parse fields, and let you put text into them.
Konraddo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unsure it fits your scenario but you could use VBA. In my case, we collect data via Excel then they get populated into a Word report template, and finally export to PDF for project delivery purposes, all automated using VBA.
alam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As its fully client side, it doesn’t expose any APIS. HOwever, I am writing an API only version of bentopdf on Rust