Add PDFSpark to Creation and production

[dpozimski]

Link to the service, library or dataset

https://pdfspark.dev

Category under which the entry should appear (select only one)

• Parsers, OCR and extraction
• Readers and viewers
• Creation and production
• Accessibility
• Datasets

Brief description of the entry

Free PDF generation API for creating PDF documents from HTML, URLs, and templates.

[avvertix]

Thanks for sharing @dpozimski

Looking at the descriptions "free and open" made me thinking that is open source, but I guess it was just meant that is free to use and no account is required. Considering that the service accepts all kind of website as input I wanted to know about more about the privacy and terms and how you handle the data storage, but I couldn't find such pages like security, privacy policy or terms of service. If you created the service could you share the link to those pages, we just want to verify the claims made in the feature and service description on the home page.

[dpozimski]

Hi @avvertix — thanks for flagging this, fair question.

You're right that "free and open" in the description was meant as "free to use, no account required" rather than open-source. Sorry for the ambiguity.

I've just published the policy pages:

• Privacy policy: https://pdfspark.dev/privacy
• Terms of service: https://pdfspark.dev/terms
• Security: https://pdfspark.dev/security

The short version, written to match actual behaviour rather than boilerplate:

• No accounts, no sign-up, no API key — nothing to associate requests with a person.
• The submitted HTML / URL content and the generated PDF are not persisted — they live in server memory for the duration of one HTTP request and are then discarded. There is no database.
• Operational access logs (IP, method, path, status, latency, user-agent) are kept up to 30 days for abuse prevention and debugging.
• Error and performance telemetry goes to Azure Application Insights (Germany West Central). No request bodies are sent to telemetry.
• URL rendering is protected against SSRF — localhost, private ranges, and 169.254.0.0/16 (cloud metadata) are blocked before the browser opens the URL.
• Hosted on Azure App Service in Germany West Central.
• No ads, no tracking cookies. Only localStorage.sv-theme for dark/light mode.

Contact addresses are on each page. Happy to adjust wording if anything reads ambiguously — let me know if this covers what you were looking for.