PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents

In plain words

PDF API is a cloud-based service that lets developers generate, convert, and modify PDF documents through HTTP requests without managing their own infrastructure. It offers actions like PDF generation, conversion, OCR, watermarking, merging, splitting, and flattening. The key feature is chaining multiple operations into a single API call—for example, converting, OCRing, watermarking, and flattening a document all at once. SDKs and sample code are available for JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, and PHP.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1]. PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure. What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions”…

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