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PDF generation for developers who have real work to do.

Convert HTML, URLs, Markdown and Office documents to PDF, merge and watermark PDFs, extract data, and generate barcodes with one transparent, serverless REST API. $1 a month plus usage, no limits.

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Headless Chrome · wkhtmltopdf · LibreOffice · 1,400+ paying customers since 2018

python example 
import requests

api_key = 'your-api-key'
endpoint = 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/pdf/html'

response = requests.post(
    endpoint,
    json={'html': '<h1>Hello World</h1>'},
    headers={'Authorization': api_key}
)
print(response.json()['FileUrl'])
Everything you need

One API. Every PDF workflow.

The tools you already trust, Headless Chrome, wkhtmltopdf and LibreOffice, wrapped in one transparent, serverless REST API.

HTML and URL to PDF

Convert HTML and URLs to PDF with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf. Headers, footers, margins and every advanced option.

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Office to PDF

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, images and 100+ file types to PDF with LibreOffice.

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Merge PDFs

Combine any number of PDF files into one, in the order you specify.

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Markdown to PDF

Send Markdown, get a styled PDF back. GitHub-flavoured syntax, code blocks and tables included.

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Watermark PDFs

Stamp text or image watermarks on every page of an existing PDF.

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Extract pages

Splice a page range out of an existing PDF into a new file.

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Password protect

Lock an existing PDF with user and owner passwords.

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Screenshots and thumbnails

Capture any URL or HTML as PNG or JPEG, and thumbnail PDFs and Office files.

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PDF to Markdown and JSON

Extract structured text and data from PDFs and Office files with MarkItDown and OpenDataLoader.

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Barcodes and QR codes

Generate QR codes, Code 128, EAN, UPC and more with ZXing.

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MCP server for AI agents

Connect Cursor, Claude Code or your own agent to mcp.api2pdf.com and get 11 document tools.

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x402 pay per request

Agents can pay for a single request with USDC on Base. No account, no API key.

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See the API in action.

Use these starter requests to understand the shape of the API, then jump into the full docs when you are ready. Every response is JSON with a FileUrl that stays valid for 24 hours.

The fast path when your app already has HTML ready to go.

POST /chrome/pdf/html 
curl -X POST 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/pdf/html' \
  -H 'Authorization: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"html":"<h1>Hello World</h1>","options":{"printBackground":true}}'
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Great for dashboards, invoices, reports, or anything already hosted.

POST /chrome/pdf/url 
curl -X POST 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/pdf/url' \
  -H 'Authorization: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.github.com","options":{"landscape":true}}'
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Send Word, Excel or PowerPoint files through LibreOffice without owning the infrastructure.

POST /libreoffice/any-to-pdf 
curl -X POST 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/libreoffice/any-to-pdf' \
  -H 'Authorization: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com/sample.docx"}'
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Pass a list of PDF URLs and get one combined document back.

POST /pdfsharp/merge 
curl -X POST 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/pdfsharp/merge' \
  -H 'Authorization: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"urls":["https://example.com/a.pdf","https://example.com/b.pdf"]}'
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Markdown in, a clean PDF out. Ideal for reports generated by LLMs.

POST /chrome/pdf/markdown 
curl -X POST 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/pdf/markdown' \
  -H 'Authorization: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"markdown":"# Quarterly report\n\n| Region | Revenue |\n|---|---|\n| EU | 1.2M |"}'
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Why API2PDF

A better experience for teams that just need PDF stuff to work.

Mission statement

API2PDF exists to make generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable. Fast, cheap and without arbitrary limits. Popular libraries and APIs such as iTextSharp, PDFCrowd and DocRaptor are unreasonably expensive; you should not have to break the bank to convert HTML to PDF.

Transparency

Most services hide what they run under the hood. API2PDF does the opposite: Headless Chrome, wkhtmltopdf, LibreOffice and PdfSharp are named up front, so you know exactly what you are buying and can test your HTML locally first.

Serverless, so it stays cheap

Every request runs in its own container on Google Cloud Run with 2 GB of RAM and 90 seconds of compute (more on the V2 XL endpoints). There are no queues, no rate limits and no file size limits, and you pay $1 a month plus a fraction of a cent per request. See the pricing page and the comparison with 18 other PDF APIs.

Built for developers and their agents

One REST API, client libraries for Python, Node, PHP, C# and Java, an MCP server for AI coding assistants, x402 pay-per-request for autonomous agents, and a plain-English fact sheet about infrastructure and data handling.

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