NOV 2020 · TELEGRAM BOT

JPG-to-PDF bot

A converter I could use from my phone

Python · Flask · MySQL · Telegram Bot API · ConvertAPI

I needed a simple way to turn images into a PDF on my phone. I didn’t really want to set up a backend for it.

Could I do this through a Telegram bot?

Finding Telegram bots

While exploring how to build the converter, I came across Telegram bots. Sending images to a bot and getting a PDF back sounded like a good fit. So I went with that and started building it.

Putting it together

I did end up with a Flask backend. It handled messages from Telegram and used ConvertAPI for the PDF conversion, then sent the result back to the chat.

I could send the images from my phone and get a PDF back in Telegram. That was the simple converter I had wanted.