Is there a free way to automatically generate a professional CV PDF with a logo/photo?

[Sifatullahsolo]

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to build a simple automation that generates a professional CV as a PDF, including things like a logo or profile photo, without manual editing.

The content is already generated correctly, but I’m struggling to find a free and reliable way to turn it into a well-formatted PDF (with proper layout, spacing, and visuals) using online or self-hosted solutions.

I’m not looking for paid services or subscriptions — just wondering if there are any free approaches people use successfully for this kind of CV generation.

If anyone has experience with this or can point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you!

[Simon_Hubs]

Here is a 100pages/month free solution: PDFEndpoint API - Free, Lightweight HTML to PDF API

Create the html maybe with ai and send it to the api

[Wouter_Nigrini]

Hi @Sifatullahsolo,

The best way I have found generating PDF docs like this is to create a google doc as a template and putting keywords in places I need data filled like {{ first_name }}, etc

Then edit the google doc to replace all keywords with values from data

Then download doc as pdf.

This will be the cheapest way to do it. I used this for generating proposals from a google doc as a template.

[Sifatullahsolo]

hello htank u . i knew that , what i need is html i mean structured pdf and in google doc this is a bit challanging to replace the same templat and download and replace with default text data

[vincenzodp]

Hi! Check this website out: PDF Generation API - Generate PDFs with a Simple API and Highly Reusable Templates​ - APITemplate.io

It lets you generate dynamically pdf files and also images. In the workflow editor, you can also find specific nodes built for it. Here is the documentation link: APITemplate.io node documentation | n8n Docs

I already used it and they work like a charm.