Skip to main content Installation Installing PDF.co Node on N8N (Version 1.94.0 and Later)
Open the Nodes Panel Search for the “PDF.co” Node
Install the Node PDF.co Api node, and in the node details window, click the Install Node button.
Operations This node provides comprehensive PDF processing capabilities through PDF.co’s API. Here are the available features:
1. AI-Powered Document Processing
AI Invoice Parser: Extract data from invoices using AI-powered parsing
2. URL/HTML to PDF Conversion
URL to PDF
HTML to PDF
HTML Template to PDF
3. PDF Merging
Merge multiple PDFs into one
Support for merging from different file formats (merge2)
4. PDF Splitting
Split by page number
Split by search text
Split by barcode
5. Document to PDF Conversion
Document to PDF (RTF, DOC, DOCX, TXT)
Spreadsheet to PDF (CSV, XLS, XLSX, TXT Spreadsheet)
Image to PDF (JPG, PNG, TIFF)
Email to PDF (MSG or EML)
PDF to CSV
PDF to HTML
PDF to Images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WEBP)
PDF to JSON
PDF to Text
PDF to Excel (XLS/XLSX)
PDF to XML
7. PDF Modification
Add text annotations
Add images to PDF documents
Fill interactive PDF forms with data
Extract PDF metadata
Get form field information
8. PDF Optimization
Compress PDF files
Optimize PDF for web or storage
Remove password protection
Add password protection
Rotate pages in PDF documents
Remove specific pages from PDF
9. PDF Search and Text Operations
Search for text within PDF documents
Search and delete text
Search and replace text
Search and replace with image
10. Barcode Operations
Extract barcode data from PDFs
Generate barcodes in PDFs
11. PDF OCR and Searchability
Make scanned PDF searchable (OCR)
Make searchable PDF unsearchable
12. File Management
Standard file upload
Create file URL from input text/content
Upload from Base64 encoded data
Credentials To use this node, you need a PDF.co API key. Here’s how to get started:
Sign up for a PDF.co account at https://pdf.co
Navigate to your dashboard and obtain your API key
In n8n, add your PDF.co credentials by providing your API key
Usage This node allows you to automate PDF processing tasks in your n8n workflows. Here are some common use cases:
Process invoices using AI-powered parsing
Automatically convert HTML reports to PDF
Merge multiple PDF documents into a single file
Extract text from PDF documents for data processing
Add watermarks to PDF documents
Compress PDF files to reduce size
Secure PDFs with password protection
Convert various document formats to PDF
Extract data from PDFs to other formats
Manage and modify PDF documents programmatically
