blinkpdf-io

blinkpdf-io Read API

Read a native PDF: its text in reading order as Markdown and with the box of every line, its headings, lists, and tables, and the values of its form fields

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Operations 1

POST /v1/read Read a native PDF as Markdown with the box of every line and its form values #

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/openapi/blinkpdf-io-read-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-render-validate-ok-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-acro-form-inspection-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-template-sandwich-document-body-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-template-layout-document-body-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-acro-form-definition-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/json-schema/blinkpdf-io-compose-validate-ok-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

blinkpdf-io-read-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Blink PDF Read API
  description: 'Render Markdown into accessible, PDF/UA-conformant PDFs over HTTP. Send Markdown plus optional document metadata, fonts, page layout, viewer hints, and per-block style overrides to `POST /v1/render`, or use a structured template such as `POST /v1/templates/sandwich-document/render` or `POST /v1/templates/layout-document/render`. Fill by name is a separate verb: template (PDF bytes or stored id) plus `{ name: value }` returns a filled PDF; it is not a second verb on `POST /v1/render`. Inspect the complete AcroForm hierarchy at `POST /v1/inspect`, dry-run at `POST /v1/validate-fill`, and fill at `POST /v1/fill`. `POST /v1/fill` streams the PDF and does not keep the output. Stored templates live at `/v1/templates` (store, list, update, delete, download); JSON get/patch/delete by id is gone. Each visible revision atomically binds immutable blank bytes, inspect, resources, and pins. Inspect describes unsupported document and field traits through capabilities and diagnostics; strict fill and template storage reject unsupported subsets. Names are ISO fully qualified names. Omitted names stay unchanged. `false` is a value. Unknown names reject the request. The filled PDF never includes `/NeedAppearances`. Fill is request/response: a live template PDF is one binary multipart part capped by the tier `maxTemplateBytes`, and produce has a 120 second ceiling. No job id. Authentication is via an `x-api-key` header. An unknown path returns HTTP 404 with the named error `not_found`. A method a registered path does not accept returns 405 `method_not_allowed` with an `Allow` header listing the methods that path accepts.'
  version: 5.0.0
  contact:
    name: Blink PDF Support
    email: support@blinkpdf.io
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    identifier: LicenseRef-Proprietary
servers:
- url: https://api.blinkpdf.io
  description: Production
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/blinkpdf-io/openapi/blinkpdf-io-read-api-openapi.yml