Show HN: Ploomber Convert – Convert Jupyter notebooks to PDF, no setup required

Hi, we’re Ido & Eduardo, the founders of Ploomber. We’re launching Ploomber Convert today, a web-based application that allows data scientists to convert notebooks to PDF, no setup required.

As data scientists, we have to share our work with non-technical colleagues to communicate results. To allow them to read our findings, we use nbconvert, which enables us to export notebooks to PDF or HTML. Unfortunately, nbconvert requires Pandoc, TeX/XeLaTeX, Pyppeteer, Chromium, and other packages, which is complicated. Ploomber Convert provides the nbconvert functionality without installing a single package.

Ploomber Convert is built on top of AWS and runs all the necessary packages in a docker container. Since notebooks often contain sensitive information, we do not store any notebooks or PDF files.

Ploomber Convert is free to use. Go to https://convert.ploomber.io, drop your Jupyter Notebook to convert, hit ‘Convert to PDF’, and save it.

We want to make Ploomber Convert the go-to tool for data scientists to turn their notebooks into shareable reports. We’re working on adding support for Quarto, custom CSS templates, export to HTML, and other features. Let us know what else you need!

We’re thrilled to share Ploomber Convert with you! So, if you had difficulties exporting your Jupyter Notebooks or if you have any feedback, please share your thoughts! We love discussing these problems since exchanging ideas sparks exciting discussions and brings our attention to use cases we haven’t considered before!