PDF.co

PDF.co Document, File & System API

The Document, File & System API from PDF.co — 17 operation(s) for document, file & system.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 18

POST /v2/pdf/compress PDF Compress #
POST /v1/pdf/optimize PDF Optimize #
POST /v1/pdf/info PDF Info Reader #
POST /v1/job/check Background & Job Check #
GET /v1/account/credit/balance Get Account Balance Info #
POST /v1/pdf/classifier Document Classifier #
POST /v1/email/send Send Email with File #
POST /v1/email/decode Extract Data from Email File #
POST /v1/email/extract-attachments Extract Email Attachment #
POST /v1/file/upload Upload Small File #
POST /v1/file/delete Delete Temporary File #
POST /v1/file/hash Get MD5 Hash of File by URL #
GET /v1/file/upload/url Upload File from URL #
POST /v1/file/upload/url Upload File from URL #
POST /v1/file/upload/base64 Upload File Using Base64 #
GET /v1/file/upload/get-presigned-url Generate Pre-signed URL #
POST /v1/pdf/security/add Add Password to PDF #
POST /v1/pdf/security/remove Remove Password from PDF #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.pdf.co/api-reference

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pdf-co/refs/heads/main/openapi/pdf-co-document-file-system-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pdf-co/refs/heads/main/json-schema/pdf-co-document-parser-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

pdf-co-document-file-system-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PDF.co Document, File & System API
  description: 'PDF.co Web API — programmatic PDF and document automation: AI invoice parsing, document parsing, PDF conversion (to/from PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, HTML, images), OCR, merging, splitting, compression, barcodes, e-signature workflows, and more. Authenticated via the x-api-key header.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: PDF.co Support
    url: https://support.pdf.co/en
    email: support@pdf.co
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://pdf.co/terms
  termsOfService: https://pdf.co/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.pdf.co
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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