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Clean Catalog needs documents with custom, per-customer branding (typography, colors, etc.) and they must meet strict accessibility standards, supporting students and faculty with vision impairments. The PDFs must be in a digital and printed format and created by a rendering engine reliable enough for an automatic pipeline.

DocRaptor’s SaaS-based model and Prince partnership allow Clean Catalog to easily create their complex PDFs. Functionally such as an automatic table of contents and tagged (accessible) PDFs from Prince “allows us to do all of that easily using just CSS and Javascript”, said Rory Douglas.

DocRaptor’s internal calculations show that our API is almost always more cost-effective than building and maintaining a self-hosted solution. Clean Catalog agrees. Rory emphasizes, “The cost of using Docraptor is probably the same or less than it'd be to host our own PDF solution, but we save a ton of time by not having to manage or troubleshoot software outside of our core business.”

Like many DocRaptor users, Social Ink needs to generate many different types of documents—but all must be high-quality. “We internally create proposals, invoices, and other documents which are then either emailed or printed as necessary,” says Yoni Reinberg. They also need PDF generation in customer applications for “clients who need to generate filled out forms or on-the-fly reports.”

DocRaptor’s handling of any kind of PDF combined with ease of installation is perfect for Social Ink. “DocRaptor has great libraries across most of the programming languages we use.”, Yoni says. “And DocRaptor tutorials are solid, documentation is well written–with a human language touch–and the support/chat is personal and not automated.”

“We considered some hosted libraries (TCPDF) and explored a few other 3rd party solutions, “ explains Yoni, but “ultimately DocRaptor’s pricing and documentation sold us.” Yoni says, “The DocRaptor team does great work, makes you feel like you’re being supported, and doesn’t come off like a generic fly by night ‘2.0 startup’ venture.”

Rocha Jarude Advogados creates contracts, legal briefs, and other mission-critical documents via an integrated pipeline with tools such as Docmosis and Formstack Documents. But in the final step, they required a more sophisticated PDF generator to meet aesthetic and legal standards.

According to Luiz, “Prince capabilities are indispensable for our use case. It enables us to programmatically generate PDFs with a more complex structure.” DocRaptor’s HTTP API allows Rocha Jarude to easily integrate Prince document generation into their AWS Lambda-based document pipeline.

Not only does DocRaptor save on development and maintenance costs, but our flexible billing structure also gives users ease of mind. “Time is money”, says Luiz, “We always think of quota usage and the ability to develop without worrying about using credits.”