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Developer-first PDF API for conversion, generation, extraction, security, forms, prepress, and AI-ready output. Cloud (US and EU) or self-hosted on your infrastructure.

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  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

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  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
The full pdfRest API reference, organized by tool and endpoint, covering conversion, extraction, redaction, forms, and more.
Integrates with Zapier, Make, n8n, Power Automate, Bubble, Google Apps Script, and Salesforce Apex, plus GitHub samples in six languages and a Python SDK on PyPI for developers building direct.
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pdfRest is built for robust, Enterprise-grade security and compliance. We meet rigorous standards for GDPR and HIPAA, and our controls are independently audited to ensure strict SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.
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    Subscription that costs up to $349 per month + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

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pdfRest makes it easy to add just about any PDF processing automation to any development project

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What is pdfRest?

pdfRest is a REST API for high-volume PDF processing, built on the Adobe PDF Library. Developers call it from any language to convert, generate, extract, secure, and prepare PDFs in production pipelines, chaining calls by passing a resource ID from one step to the next.

  • Convert: Office, HTML, images, email, and Markdown to PDF; PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, Markdown, PDF/A, PDF/X (1a, 3, 4, 6), and PostScript.

  • Generate: create a PDF from scratch and add text, images, shapes, tables, and attachments, with accessibility tagging.

  • Extract and analyze: OCR, text, images, form data, metadata queries, AI summarization and translation.

  • Secure: sign, encrypt, restrict, watermark, two-step redaction, and TDM Reserve to signal AI-training opt-out.

  • Prepress: convert colors, flatten transparencies, set page boxes, rasterize, refry through PostScript.

  • Forms: import and export form data, flatten forms, convert XFA to AcroForms.

Deploy on pdfRest Cloud in the US or EU, or self-host with the Container on Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS Marketplace (BYOL). Same API, same code, change the base URL.

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