Generating PDFs from Word Templates with officeParser

I've been singing the praises of the officeParser library for a while. It's an open source JavaScript library that can parse, extract, and convert between PDFs and Office documents, as well as OpenOffice, ePub and more. My demos have all focused on client-side examples but obviously the library would work great in a server side workflow as well. I haven't worked at Adobe for years now, but I still get strangely excited working with documents. I'll just add that to the long list of reasons I'm a big nerd. A few weeks ago, I reached out to Harsh Ankur about an idea inspired by Adobe's Document Generation API. This was probably my favorite API in their suite of PDF services. You take a Word document, put in tokens, and call the API with your data. The API would swap out the tokens with real data and give you a PDF in return. (Or Word again if you wanted that.) I suggested this to Harsh and then - voila - he added it! At this time, the token system is simply a replacement system. You add…