Useful notes for developers working with PDF generation, document conversion, and infrastructure decisions.
Intro If you are writing python code, you might be tasked with generating an image preview or thumbnail image of a PDF or Microsoft Office file like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even email files. If you ended up on this article you probab...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing c# / .net core code, you might be tasked with the strange requirement of converting HTML to a Microsoft Excel (xlsx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would be. Y...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing nodejs / javascript code, you might be tasked with the strange requirement of converting HTML to a Microsoft Excel (xlsx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would ...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert HTML to an image or HTML to png format for various reasons. Perhaps you are generating a snapshot or image preview of an HTML template you designed as part of your application. Maybe you are crawling websi...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing nodejs / javascript code, you might be tasked with generating a Microsoft Word (Docx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would be. You might have ended up on stack...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert HTML to an image or HTML to png format for various reasons. Perhaps you are generating a snapshot or image preview of an HTML template you designed as part of your application. Maybe you are crawling websi...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert HTML to an image or HTML to png format for various reasons. Perhaps you are generating a snapshot or image preview of an HTML template you designed as part of your application. Maybe you are crawling websi...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing php code, you might be tasked with generating an image preview or thumbnail image of a PDF or Microsoft Office file like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even email files. If you ended up on this article you probably ...
Continue readingIntro If you are working with PDFs as a C# / .NET Core developer, you know the pain associated with working with them. In this post we will cover how to conveniently add bookmarks to a PDF using our REST API in just a few lines of code. ...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing node / javascript code, you might be tasked with generating an image preview or thumbnail image of a PDF or Microsoft Office file like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even email files. If you ended up on this article...
Continue readingIntro API2PDF is a REST API that provides utilities for manipulating PDFs and other files. You landed here because you just want a simple and reliable way to add passwords to PDF files as a php developer. Our API will take your .pdf file...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert a URL to an image, URL to PNG, or automatically take a screenshot of a website for various reasons. Maybe you are crawling websites and would like an image preview of all of them for a database. In either ...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing python code, you might be tasked with the strange requirement of converting HTML to a Microsoft Excel (xlsx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would be. You might...
Continue readingIntro For those who are nodejs developers, you might have a niche requirement to convert a PDF into HTML, or extract text content from a PDF for indexing purposes. Here at API2PDF, we have a PDF to HTML endpoint that does a best effort t...
Continue readingIntro If you are working with PDFs as a nodejs developer, you know the pain associated with working with them. In this post we will cover how to conveniently add bookmarks to a PDF using our REST API in just a few lines of code. Our API ...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert a URL to an image, URL to PNG, or automatically take a screenshot of a website for various reasons. Maybe you are crawling websites and would like an image preview of all of them for a database. In either ...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing c# / .net core code, you might be tasked with generating an image preview or thumbnail image of a PDF or Microsoft Office file like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even email files. If you ended up on this article yo...
Continue readingIntro You might need to convert HTML to an image or HTML to png format for various reasons. Perhaps you are generating a snapshot or image preview of an HTML template you designed as part of your application. Maybe you are crawling websi...
Continue readingThis is a major release which contains breaking changes. You can remain on the older version of the API if you wish to keep using v2018.api2pdf.com. Upgrade is not required, though recommended. We will continue to run the older version o...
Continue readingApi2Pdf proudly announces that we have reached 1000 paying businesses. 1000 customers is a great milestone for any SaaS business. Thank you to all of our loyal customers for being a part of our journey over the last 3 years!
Continue readingWe continue to enhance our V2 API which is loaded with features now. Check out our REST API documentation here. A major annoyance for developers is having to generate a thumbnail or image preview of an uploaded Office file or PDF ...
Continue readingFor a while, a pain point for our LibreOffice endpoint is that it struggled with converting email files to PDF. The file extension for these were often .eml or .msg. People would need to either convert email files to PDF format in large ...
Continue readingConvert HTML to Image or URL to Image with Headless Chrome Headless Chrome provides a great way to take screenshots or images of raw HTML or a URL of a website. If you need to do this at scale with an easy to use API, we’ve got you...
Continue readingToday is DockerCON Live 2020 – Link is here. And API2PDF will be attending. They also made the entire event free. With so many conferences being cancelled, we are seeing the rise and likely permanence of virtual conferences an...
Continue readingAPI2PDF is GDPR and privacy compliant. We do not store or log the payload data used to make the API calls at all. All PDFs self-delete from our storage after 24 hours, but you have the ability to DELETE them immediately. Our v...
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