Overview
PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API from pdfRest provides developers and organizations with powerful, secure, and customizable PDF solutions. These API Tools easily integrate into any workflow or application to support bulk, batch, and automated document processing.
Maintain full control with a dedicated EC2-based RESTful API with scalable performance to meet your needs. Built with Adobe PDF Library, the same technology that powers Adobe Acrobat, and developed by Datalogics, globally-trusted document processing experts for over 50 years, pdfRest has the gold-standard API Toolkit for high-quality PDF processing.
API Tools
PDF Toolkit Features:
Convert
Convert to PDF - Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PostScript, HTML, EPS, BMP, TIF, PNG, and JPG files to PDF.
Convert to PDF/X - Convert PDFs to PDF/X formats for print requirements.
Convert to PDF/A - Convert PDFs to PDF/A formats for compliance and long-term preservation.
PDF to Images - Convert PDFs to JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, and TIF, preserving color fidelity.
Convert PDF Colors - Control document colors with custom ICC profiles and presets.
Optimize
Compress PDF - Reduce PDF sizes while maintaining quality.
Linearize PDF - Enable fast web viewing for PDFs.
Flatten Transparencies - Increase RIP speed by flattening transparent objects.
Flatten Annotations - Make annotations non-editable by flattening them.
Flatten Layers - Merge all PDF layers into one.
Modify
Add to PDF - Insert images or attachments into PDFs.
Merge PDFs - Combine multiple PDFs into one.
Split PDF - Split a PDF into multiple documents.
Extract
Extract Text - Extract text from PDFs, including style and position information.
Query PDF - Retrieve detailed information about a PDF's content.
OCR PDF - Convert scanned documents and images in PDFs to searchable text.
Secure
Watermark PDF - Apply text or image watermarks to all PDF pages.
Encrypt PDF - Encrypt PDFs with passwords and secure them.
Restrict PDF - Set or remove restrictions on PDF interactions.
Simplify
Upload PDF - Upload multiple files from local storage or URLs.
Zip Files - Archive multiple files into a single Zip file.
Compatible PDF APIs
For more PDF processing solutions, find compatible products such as our robust pdfRest PDF Forms Pro or PDF to Office Pro Self-Hosted API in the AWS Marketplace. These services can work together to meet all of your PDF and PDF Forms processing requirements.
Forms Pro
PDF to Office Pro
Highlights
- Professional PDF Processing: Gold-standard document processing powered by Adobe® PDF Library™ and built by PDF experts with decades of digital document experience.
- Dedicated and Secure: This Self-Hosted version of the popular pdfRest PDF Forms Pro API enables your organization to host private, dedicated EC2 instances of our PDF Forms Pro API.
- Easy and Cost-Effective: Set up and get started quickly with a standalone AMI or a load-balanced stack with multi-instance support using our CloudFormation Template, and only pay for what you use. Scaling is available to automatically spin up or down EC2 instances as your workload changes
Details
Typical total price
$0.596/hour
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
Free trial
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t3.medium | $0.23 | $0.042 | $0.272 |
t3.large | $0.33 | $0.083 | $0.413 |
t3.xlarge Recommended | $0.43 | $0.166 | $0.596 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.83 | $0.333 | $1.163 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
Please contact help@pdfrest.com for more information.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
New features
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Adds improved and formatted logging output.
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Adds an option for 'distilling' eps files.
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Adds horizontal and vertical alignment to watermarking.
Updates
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Adds release date and product name to /up-toolkit.
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Updates /pdfx with less aggressive profiles.
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Sets PDF/X-4 as the default output_type for /pdfx.
Fixes
- Corrects issues with async.
Additional details
Usage instructions
To connect to the operating system, use SSH and the username ec2-user. Usage instructions can be found here: https://pdfrest.com/pdf-toolkit-self-hosted-instructions/
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
We're here to help you every step of the way. If you have any questions, a member of the pdfRest team will be in touch as soon as possible. Please reach out to us at: help@pdfrest.com help@pdfrest.com
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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