Certificate Generator 🏆

Welcome to the Certificate Generator repository! This project automates the creation of personalized certificates in PDF format using a PowerPoint template. With a single script, you can quickly generate certificates for multiple recipients, ensuring consistent design and format.

✨ Key Features of the Script:

• Automatically replaces placeholders with recipient names while preserving the text style and formatting.
• Generates certificates for all names listed in a text file.
• Saves the certificates as PDFs, ready for distribution.
• Ensures the output directory exists, creating it if necessary.

⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository to your local machine:

   git clone https://github.com/Anuswar/certificate-generator.git
   cd certificate-generator

2. Set up the environment:

   • Ensure you have Python installed.
   • Install the necessary Python packages:

     pip install python-pptx comtypes

3. Prepare your files:

   • Place your certificate_template.pptx PowerPoint template in the repository directory.
   • Create a names.txt file with each recipient's name on a new line.

4. Run the script:

   python certificate-generator.py

📂 File Structure

The repository includes the following files:

certificate-generator/
├── generate_certificates.py  # Script to generate certificates
├── certificate_template.pptx # PowerPoint template for the certificates
├── names.txt                 # List of recipient names
├── README.md                 # This README file
├── LICENSE.md                # License for the repository

🛠️ Tech Stack

This repository utilizes the following technologies and tools:

• Python: The main scripting language used for generating certificates.
• python-pptx: A Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint files.
• comtypes: A Python library to interface with COM objects, used here for converting PPTX files to PDFs.
• PowerPoint: Used as the template base for certificates.
• PDF: The final output format for the certificates, ensuring easy distribution and printing.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues, have suggestions, or want to add features, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.
3. Make your changes and commit them with descriptive messages.
4. Push your changes to your fork.
5. Open a pull request to the main branch of the original repository.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, allowing you to use, modify, and distribute the code freely.