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Businesses searching for a PDF solution that helps create, convert, transform, OCR PDFs and more
About Adobe PDF Services API
Create a PDF from Microsoft Office documents, protect the content, and convert to other formats. Programmatically alter a document, such as reordering, inserting, and rotating pages, as well as compressing the file. Access the same cloud-based APIs that power Adobe's end-user applications to quickly deliver scalable, secure solutions. Extract text, images, tables, and more from native and scanned PDFs into a structured JSON file. PDF Extract API leverages AI technology to accurately identify text objects and understand the natural reading order of different elements such as headings, lists, and paragraphs spanning multiple columns or pages. Extract font styles with identification of metadata such as bold and italic text and their position within your PDF. The extracted content is output in a structured JSON file format with tables in CSV or XLSX and images saved as PNG.
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WebPDF is an online service that provides an easy an accessible way to alter PDF files. You can do any of the following operations using the web interface, but there's also a developer friendly API that you can integrate into your own application:
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There are many other tools not mentioned here and lots more to be released. You can try WebPDF for free, even without an account.
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Pdftools
Whether you have thousands of documents or millions, Pdftools has the products and services to help make processing a breeze.
Designed for document-heavy industries, Pdftools’ suite of SDKs and APIs are here to make your document workflows easier, faster, and stress-free. Built on SDKs and APIs, the Pdftools products integrate seamlessly into your existing (or new) systems and applications. Process thousands of documents every minute. Our tools are precision-engineered to be efficient and run at blazing speeds. We’re engineers at heart, so we’re only satisfied with the most reliable, orderly, and usable, and well-documented platforms. Shrink file sizes down, but keep the quality and interactivity. Your documents will always be compliant for long-term archiving. We’ve obsessed over every detail in our products, and documented everything so it’s easy to get started.
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pdfRest API Toolkit
pdfRest is a REST API for high-volume PDF processing, built on the Adobe PDF Library. Call it from any language to convert, generate, extract, secure, and prepare PDFs in production pipelines, chaining calls by passing a resource ID between steps.
Convert Office, HTML, images, email, and Markdown to PDF, and PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, Markdown, PDF/A, PDF/X, and PostScript. Generate PDFs from scratch with text, images, shapes, and attachments, with accessibility tagging. Extract via OCR, text/image extraction, form data, metadata, AI summarization, translation. Secure with signing, encryption, restrictions, watermarking, two-step redaction, and TDM Reserve to opt out of AI training. Handle prepress: color conversion, transparency flattening, page boxes, rasterization. Manage forms: import/export, flatten, XFA-to-AcroForm.
Deploy on pdfRest Cloud (US or EU) or self-host via Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS Marketplace (BYOL) — same API, same code, just change the base URL.
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Wide Angle PDF Converter
Convert your PDF files to a variety of formats including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JPG, and PNG. Modify and secure PDF files from your own computer. Convert PDF documents to MS Office, images, or other formats. You can also modify and secure your files. Integrates with Microsoft Outlook and allows you to save your emails as PDF files to your computer. All conversions are performed locally on your PC, with no uploading of sensitive documents to an online service. Quickly convert your PDF to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats. You can even convert PDFs to images such as JPG, PNG, SVG, and GIF. Other document conversion formats include TXT, HTML, EPUB, XPS, and PostScript. Combine multiple PDF documents into one, or append a PDF file to your existing PDF document. Copy and export selected text or image content for use in other applications or documents. Add bookmarks and attachments for easy navigation and file sharing.
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Adobe
Founded: 1982
United States
developer.adobe.com/document-services/apis/pdf-services/
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