PDF Toolkit

PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API

Integrate powerful PDF solutions quickly and easily with any application or workflow. Connect simply with standard REST API services while maintaining full control of your backend infrastructure, file storage, and security.

Why choose PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API?

PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API puts you in full control of your PDF processing solutions, supporting the most rigorous data protection and compliance requirements.

The Speed You Need

Get started quickly with helpful resources and easy implementation. pdfRest supports rapid prototyping, flexible integration, and lightning fast time-to-market. Start testing in seconds, and you'll be ready to launch soon after.

Unmatched Quality

Gold-standard document processing powered by Adobe® PDF Library™ and built by PDF experts with decades of digital document experience. Get the highest quality results with technology trusted globally by enterprise organizations.

Save as You Go

Affordable pay-as-you go pricing for all projects, big and small. No up-front licensing fees or maintenance contracts. Try free for 7 days, and only pay for what you need.

Full Featured PDF Toolkit
Full-Featured PDF Toolkit

All the PDF processing API Tools you'll need to convert, optimize, modify, inspect, secure, and simplify your digital documents and processing workflows.

Includes all the standard PDF processing tools you'd expect, such as Convert to PDF, Compress PDF, Merge PDFs, and Split PDF, as well as professional-grade tools like Flatten Transparencies, Convert to PDF/A, and Flatten Forms to prepare your documents for specific use cases, like print, archival, and forms processing.

Private and secure infrastructure
Private Cloud Infrastructure

Self-Hosted API enables your organization to host private, dedicated EC2 instances of our PDF Toolkit. Customize your own auto-scaling environment to handle peak periods and maintain full control of your service backend.

This Self-Hosted API does not make external calls, allowing you and your team to rest easy knowing your files and data will remain entirely within your AWS infrastructure to ensure you meet compliance with your business and regulatory requirements.

Resting Easy
REST, Easy

pdfRest REST APIs are easy to use and understand with standard HTTP verbs and intuitive endpoints that just make sense. Integrate with any application or platform from nearly any development language or even low/no-code service.

For a quick start, try testing with the Cloud API before setting up your self-hosted backend. Sign up for free, and send calls right away from the API Lab web app, which autogenerates copyable code for quick deployment in your own application. Test dozens of code samples in the pdfRest GitHub Repo, or send calls right from the pdfRest Postman Collection.

A Tool for Every Task

PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API offers all of the PDF processing tools you'll need, designed and developed by digital document experts to make your job easy.

Add to PDF
Add to PDF
Insert text, images, or file attachments
Compress PDF
Compress PDF
Reduce file size, preserve quality
Convert PDF Colors
Convert PDF Colors
Change a PDF's Color Profile
Convert to PDF
Convert to PDF
Convert from many file formats to PDF
Convert to PDF/A
Convert to PDF/A
Convert PDF to PDF/A for archival
Convert to PDF/X
Convert to PDF/X
Convert PDF to PDF/X for print
Encrypt PDF
Encrypt PDF
Add a required password to open a PDF
Extract Text
Extract Text
Extract all text from PDFs
Flatten Annotations
Flatten Annotations
Collapse annotations into page content
Flatten Layers
Flatten Layers
Collapse multiple layers into one
Flatten Transparencies
Flatten Transparencies
Optimize for print and compatibility
Linearize PDF
Linearize PDF
Optimize for fast web viewing
Merge PDFs
Merge PDFs
Combine whole PDFs or page ranges
OCR PDF
OCR PDF
Get searchable, extractable text from PDF images
PDF to Images
PDF to Images
Render PDF pages to image formats
Query PDF
Query PDF
Get info and check for conditions
Restrict PDF
Restrict PDF
Limit what viewers can do with a PDF
Split PDF
Split PDF
Split a PDF into multiple output files
Upload Files
Upload Files
Upload files with flexible options
Watermark PDF
Watermark PDF
Apply a text or image watermark to PDF
Zip Files
Zip Files
Zip processed files for easy downloads

Pricing

Available through the AWS Marketplace with pay-as-you go pricing that scales with your needs

c7i-flex.large

Dual cores for testing and development.

$0.31

Product cost / hr

  • Unlimited API calls
  • Ideal for testing workflows and automation

c7i-flex.xlarge

Twice the memory of the c7i-flex.large for batch processing.

$0.57

Product cost / hr

  • Unlimited API calls
  • Intended for small-medium batch workloads
  • Burstable CPU and consistent baseline performance
Recommended

c7i-flex.2xlarge

Double the CPU and memory of the c7i-flex.xlarge to scale workloads.

$1.05

Product cost / hr

  • Unlimited API calls
  • Increased cores for concurrent processing
  • Use with autoscaling groups for sustained workloads

c7i-flex.4xlarge

Quadruple the CPU and memory of the c7i-flex.xlarge for production workloads.

$1.97

Product cost / hr

  • Unlimited API calls
  • Production-ready compute power
  • Integrates and scales with many AWS services

c7i-flex.8xlarge

Eight times the CPU and memory of the c7i-flex.xlarge for production workloads.

$3.59

Product cost / hr

  • Unlimited API calls
  • Production-ready compute power
  • Increased cores for concurrent processing

Documentation

Everything you need to set up your self-hosted backend and customize your PDF solutions

AWS Setup Instructions
Set up and configure your self-hosted AWS infrastructure
API Reference Guide
View all endpoints, parameters, code examples, expected responses, and more

Control your backend with Self-Hosted API

Visit the AWS Marketplace to begin your pdfRest self-hosted journey. Get set up in minutes and start testing with a 7 day free trial and zero commitment.