Audience

Developers looking to rapidly integrate high-quality PDF workflows with any business applications while self-hosting the backend processing servers

About pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted

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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Pricing

Starting Price:
$0.242 per hour
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Free Trial available.

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API:
Yes, pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted offers API access
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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

Datalogics Inc.
Founded: 1967
United States
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pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted Product Features

PDF

Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge / Append
Watermarking
Annotations
PDF Reader

pdfRest API Toolkit Self-Hosted Verified User Reviews

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  • A Datalogics PDF Private REST APIs User
    IT Director - Application Development
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: Administrator
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
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    "Pdf Optimizer for Compressing Large PDF Files"

    Edited 2022-11-29

    Pros: Very simple to install and easy to use. Any changes to be done to increase or decrease compression and quality of the compression can be made to a json file which it uses when doing the compression command. And we can have multiple json files to handle different types of compression.

    Cons: There are still 1 or 2 files that do not get compressed.

    Overall: Very good software and not too expensive, when it helps to save a lot of storage space. This helps to save on the storage cost.

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