Setasign/FPDI

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FPDI is a collection of PHP classes that read pages from existing PDF documents and use them as templates in PDF generation libraries like FPDF, TCPDF, and tFPDF. It requires no special PHP extensions beyond Zlib and is distributed under the MIT license.

Use cases

• import pages from an existing pdf into a new pdf with php
• stamp a watermark or overlay onto existing pdf pages
• merge pages from multiple pdf documents using fpdf
• use a pdf page as a template and add text on top
• extract and reuse single pages from a pdf file in php
• generate invoices that build on an existing pdf letterhead

When to choose

• you generate PDFs in PHP with FPDF, TCPDF, tFPDF, or mPDF and need to reuse existing PDF pages
• you want a pure-PHP solution with no special extensions beyond Zlib
• you need an MIT-licensed library for PDF page importing

When to avoid

• you need to edit or fully manipulate existing PDFs (annotations, form fields, bookmarks are lost on import)
• you need to import encrypted or protected PDF documents
• the source PDF uses compression techniques unsupported by the free FPDI parser

Facets

library · maturity stable

pdf parser templating pdf files web-development php cross-platform fpdf tcpdf pdf-import page-templates composer

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