Topic: Generating PDFs in Real-Time

Overview: The following demo is an automation project that I did years ago. My brother had won a large software project from an insurance company, and he and his programmers did most of the work. However, my part was a module called PDF Services. The goal was to print policyholder information in real-time on insurance contracts (provided as PDF files), so the policyholder could print out / sign / mail their contracts on-demand. Since the contracts had been approved over many years by company executives and lawyers, we couldn't change their format to HTML. They had to stay PDFs. This automation saved their office a large amount of time (processing and mailing tens of thousands of insurance policies). In addition, it also saved paper, ink and stamps -- which were now provided by the policyholders.

Demo: What follows is a short demo of DLC's ability to generate PDF files in real-time. You'll see some fictitious policyholder information, which you can customize, to prove this is happening in real-time. The data is passed from the HTML via JSON format to the custom PHP code, which generates the new PDF. Click the button below to begin.