Find answers to frequently asked questions and explore helpful guides. Organized by category to help you quickly resolve issues and make the most of PDF.co.

Overview

PDF.co Documentation

Introducing the general concepts for using the PDF.co API, authentication methods, response codes and sample code.

Getting Started

Understanding Sync and Async Modes

Process invoices faster than ever by extracting data and structuring it automatically with our advanced AI. Get quick and accurate data from any invoice, no matter the layout.

AI Invoice Parser

Extract Attachment

Add text, images, forms, other PDFs, fill forms, links to external sites and external PDF files. You can update or modify PDF and scanned PDF files.

PDF Add

Delete text from the PDF document with search strings.

PDF Search and Delete Text

Convert PDF and scanned images into CSV representation with layout, columns, rows, and tables.

PDF to CSV

Convert PDF to XML with information about text value, tables, fonts, images, objects positions.

PDF to XML

Convert PDF and scanned images into HTML representation with text, fonts, images, vectors, formatting preserved.

PDF to HTML

Convert `JPG`, `PNG`, `TIFF` image formats into `PDF`.

PDF from Image

PDF from URL

Convert email files (`.msg` or `.eml`) code into PDF. Extract attachments (if any) from input email and embeds into PDF as PDF attachments.

PDF from Email

PDF Compress

PDF Optimize (DEPRECATED)

Get detailed information about a **PDF** document, it’s properties and security permissions.

PDF Info Reader

Checks the [status](#available-status-values) of a background job that was previously created with PDF.co API. Use this API to check the status of your asynchronous API calls.

Background & Job Check

Get Account Balance Info

Use this endpoint to automatically sort / detect the class of the document based on keywords-based rules. For example, you can define rules to find which vendor provided the document to find which template to apply accordingly.

Document Classifier

Deletes selected pages inside a PDF file.

PDF Delete Pages

This page describes the `profiles` parameter that can be used with your API calls.

Profiles

Postman

Webhook and Callbacks

Response Codes

URL Input and Request Limits

Language Support

PDF.co can be integrated with a lot of online applications, services and platforms with little or no coding experience required.
 Automate your tasks and manage your workflows to achieve your goals, for example, automatically trigger events on documents or emails as they arrive in your inbox or easily create PDF invoices from templates.

PDF.co Integrations

[Make](https://www.make.com) is a visual platform that lets you design, build, and automate anything – from simple tasks to complex workflows – in minutes. With **Make**, you can send information between **PDF.co** and thousands of apps to improve document workflows and data extraction processes seamlessly. It’s fast and easy to use, visually intuitive and requires zero coding expertise.

Getting Started with Make

Getting Started with Zapier

The PDF.co n8n community node enables fast and easy automation of PDF-related tasks within n8n workflows. Built on the PDF.co API, this node allows you to programmatically convert, merge, split, and extract data from PDF documents. As a community-maintained integration, it helps streamline document processing without complex coding, making it ideal for automating business operations involving PDFs.

Getting Started with n8n

[Microsoft Power Automate](https://make.powerautomate.com) formerly known as **Microsoft Flow** is one of the main features of **Microsoft’s Power Platform**. It is a service that can be used to automate business workflow. It has a guided and no\-code functionality that makes it possible for everyone to easily automate time\-consuming tasks and processes. It offers seamless integration to other apps using a pre\-built **Connector Library** to create small and large\-scale systems.

Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate

Integrating SharePoint, OneDrive, and other storage platforms into your Power Automate workflows with PDF.co can streamline document processing. This guide provides detailed steps for linking these sources and efficiently managing documents with PDF.co in Power Automate.

Integrating File Sources with PDF.co

[Google Apps Script](https://developers.google.com/apps-script) is a scripting platform designed for rapid application development for the fast and easy creation of business applications that integrate with **G Suite** products. Modern **JavaScript** is the scripting language being used to write codes. **Apps Script** includes built\-in libraries for **G Suite** applications such as **Drive**, **Calendar**, **Gmail**, and more.

Google Apps Script

[Salesforce](http://salesforce.com/) provides customer relationship management services and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development.

Salesforce

[Pabbly Connect](https://www.pabbly.com/connect/) is an online automation solution that connects two or more apps to manage and automate repetitive and manual tasks. It supports 800\+ apps integration for seamless real\-time data transfer.

Pabbly Connect

[Airtable](https://airtable.com/) is a cloud\-based project management system that was founded on the belief that software shouldn’t dictate how you work.

Airtable

[SharePoint](https://sharepoint.microsoft.com/) is a web\-based platform that integrates with other **Microsoft** services.

Sharepoint

This section contains general information about PDF.co functionality and features that span multiple categories.

General

Comprehensive guide to PDF.co's extraction APIs for programmatically extracting data from PDF documents. Includes endpoints for document parsing, table extraction, and more.

Extract

This section covers the conversion of PDF files to various formats, including text, images, and more.

Convert

Comprehensive guide to PDF.co's document manipulation APIs for programmatic PDF generation, editing, and transformation. Includes endpoints for merging, splitting, text insertion, page deletion, and other document modifications with code examples.

Welcome

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Glossary

Overview

General

Extract

Convert

Create/Edit

Manage

Security

User-Controlled Encryption

PDF.co Document Parser: Template Creation Guide

SMTP Configuration Guide