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Benny Schuetz
Benny Schuetz

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Stop rebuilding Word documents with PDF libraries or HTML generators

Hi fellow coders,

Being a software dev since ages now - I always hated the following task:

Often legal, finance, or sales teams provide document templates as Word files. To automate document generation, I as the developer usually had to rebuild the entire layout using PDF libraries or translate the DOC into HTML and then convert it to PDF.

This is boring, tedious and fragile.

That's why I built TMPLVISION after repeatedly running into the same issue in projects.

TMPLVISION takes a different approach:

• Create document templates directly in Microsoft Word (.docx)
• Insert placeholders like {{my_test}}
• Send JSON via a REST API
• Receive a generated PDF or HTML document

In Short
DOCX + JSON → PDF / HTML

Curious how others here are currently solving document generation.

Btw. if you want to check it out (free plan available) you can find it here: tmplvision.io

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