I built a tool to convert WhatsApp chats to PDF

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Hey HN! I built ChatToPDF to solve a problem I kept running into: needing to archive WhatsApp conversations for documentation, legal records, or just memories, but finding WhatsApp's export format terrible for sharing or long-term storage. What it does: Converts WhatsApp's .txt export files into clean, readable PDFs Preserves the original chat formatting and timestamps Why I built this: I needed to document some customer support conversations for my business, and WhatsApp's plain text export is basically unreadable for long chats. I wanted something that just works, respects privacy, and produces professional-looking output.

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