AI & ML

The case for deterministic PDF filling

AI can read almost any document now. The harder question is what writes the answer back — and for anything an auditor might ever look at, that write s…

How to Add Electronic Signatures to PDFs in the Browser (Vue 3 + HTML5 Canvas)

A client emailed me a contract last week. I needed to sign it and send it back. The usual options? Print it, sign with a pen, scan it back in. Or uplo…

Как построить умный реестр документов с бесплатным OCR и обходом лимитов API AI

Формирование реестров документов для указанных папках с нужными параметрами (такими как  название статьи, краткое описание и т.п.) с использовани…

Document Automation in 2026: A Honest Comparison of the AI-Native Platforms

TL;DR: Document automation has matured. Carbone, Docxpresso, and the open-source template engines dominate the developer tier. Templafy and Conga cove…

Why Building a PDF Engine in Go Will Help You Understand Go Concepts Better

There is a class of projects that teaches you more about a language than any tutorial ever could. Building a PDF engine from scratch in Go is one of t…

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

I Built a Service That Actually Converts PDFs to Markdown Correctly

Have you ever copy-pasted from a PDF only to get mangled line breaks, tables collapsed into a single line, formulas turned into gibberish, and figure …

I built a small tool to make PDFs easier to read at night

I read a lot of PDFs at night, especially on my phone. And honestly, PDFs are not great for that. Most of them still feel like digital paper: white ba…

I Built pretext-pdf: Serverless PDFs Without Chromium

I Built pretext-pdf: Serverless PDFs Without Chromium I got frustrated with PDF generation in Node.js. Every tool had trade-offs, and none of them fel…

I Needed to Remove a QR Code from an Image, But Every Solution Was Complicated

A few weeks ago, I was updating some marketing assets for one of my projects. Everything looked good until I noticed a small problem. The image contai…

The Critical State of Cyberspacs

NATO is currently in a ‘grey zone’: increasingly being challenged in cyberspace while unable to attribute attacks, thus failing to deter. Simultaneous…

Build a PDF to Image Converter in Next.js

This tutorial walks through the PDF to Images feature in a Next.js template. You'll learn how to use it from the UI, and how it works under the hood u…

Tabula vs Camelot vs pdfplumber in 2026: Which Python Library Actually Wins?

When you need to extract tables from PDFs in Python, three libraries dominate every Stack Overflow answer and tutorial from the past few years: Tabula…

How to Convert Bank Statement PDFs to Excel: The Complete 2026 Guide

If you work in accounting or bookkeeping, you have probably spent hours copying transaction data from PDF bank statements into Excel. It is tedious, e…

How to Generate PDF Invoices? A Complete Guide from Zero to Service-Oriented Implementation

Generating a PDF invoice may seem as simple as "exporting a file," but in real business scenarios, it connects order systems, finance systems, tax rul…

PdfKmp 1.0 — A Kotlin Multiplatform PDF Library for Android and iOS

Built specifically for Kotlin Multiplatform PdfKmp is a KMP-first library. The DSL, the layout engine, and the document model all live in commonMain .…

When I started building GoPdfSuit, I thought: "PDF is just a document format. How hard can it be?"

Very. Very hard . After months of wrestling with binary structures, cryptographic byte offsets, and ICC color profiles, I want to share the ten most b…

Generating PDFs shouldn't be this hard in 2026

There's a moment every developer knows. You need to generate a PDF. It looks simple. You've done harder things. Three hours later, you're reading a St…