⚡ PDFforge — Convert Anything to PDF

A fast, lightweight, and private document-to-PDF converter built with Flask and Python. No signup. No cloud uploads. Everything runs locally on your machine.

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🚀 Features

• 📄 Convert multiple file formats to PDF in one click
• 🖼️ Image support — PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, TIFF
• 📝 Document support — TXT, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, HTML, Markdown
• 📦 Batch conversion — upload multiple files at once
• 🔒 100% local — your files never leave your machine
• 🌐 Auto-opens in browser when you run it

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📁 Project Structure

PDFforge/
├── app.py                  # Flask backend + conversion logic
├── templates/
│   └── index.html          # Frontend HTML
├── static/
│   ├── style.css           # Styling
│   └── main.js             # Frontend JavaScript
├── requirements.txt        # Dependencies
└── .gitignore

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🛠️ Setup & Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/subham23s/PDFforge.git
cd PDFforge

2. Create and activate virtual environment

python -m venv venv

# Windows
venv\Scripts\activate

# Linux / Mac
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the app

python app.py

The browser will automatically open at http://127.0.0.1:5050

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📦 Supported Formats

Format	Type
.txt	Plain Text
.md	Markdown
.html / .htm	Web Page
.docx	Word Document
.xlsx	Excel Spreadsheet
.csv	CSV Data
.png / .jpg / .jpeg	Images
.gif / .bmp / .webp / .tiff	Images
.pdf	PDF (passthrough)

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🧰 Tech Stack

• Backend — Python, Flask
• PDF Generation — ReportLab
• Document Parsing — python-docx, openpyxl
• Image Processing — Pillow
• Frontend — HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript

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👤 Author

Subham Mishra
B.Tech CSE (AI/ML) LinkedIn ·