Create selectable PDF files with Lambda Python and ReportLab

Motivation

There are times when I need to create PDF files for reporting from data points using an AWS Lambda function.

This blog post was inspired by a blog post from Classmethod (in Japanese), which demonstrates how to create PDF files with a Lambda function using WeasyPrint + Jinja. In this post, I want to share an alternative approach to create PDF files with Python Lambda using the ReportLab library.

Here is the image of the PDF file.

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