Build a PDF Invoice Generator with Python
Level: Real-World
Project Description
In today’s project we will create a command-line tool that generates PDF invoices for customers. The user provides customer information, purchased items, and prices through a JSON input file. The tool calculates totals, applies taxes, and saves the invoice as a professional-looking PDF document. Here is how the generated PDF will look like:
Learning Benefits
Learn how to work with JSON files for structured data.
Use
fpdfto generate professional PDF documents.Practice mathematical operations for totals and taxes.
Understand how to format and style tabular data in a PDF.
Prerequisites
Required Libraries: json
pip install fpdf
Required Files: Download the JSON file which contains customer invoice data.
IDE: Use any IDE.
Danger Zone
Here is the code solution and the steps to get the app up and running.
Happy Coding!
Daily Python Projects Team
There appears to be a typo under the required libraries prerequisites. "pdf" is a broken package that won't install. The solution uses fpdf instead.