Archive for the ‘Example Uses’ Category


Extract pages out of a PDF with REST API

March 12th, 2022 / by api2pdf /

Introduction We are proud to announce a new feature with for our PdfSharp endpoints: Extract Pages. With this endpoint, you will be able to specify (optionally), a start and end of a page range of your PDF file and API2PDF will extract a new PDF with just that page range only. Extract pages out of […]

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Generate PDF from Cloudflare Worker with Headless Chrome

January 9th, 2022 / by api2pdf /

Intro At the time of this post, Cloudflare Workers does not support the idea of embedding Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf in its environment. Workers also does not the idea of running docker containers either. This may change in the future, but for now, if you built an application on top of workers and need to […]

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Add a Password to a PDF with PHP

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro 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 and return back to you a new .pdf file with the […]

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Add bookmarks to PDF with PHP

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro If you are working with PDFs as a php 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 will take your .pdf file and return back […]

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PHP Tutorial – Convert PDF to HTML

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro For those who are php 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 to extract the text from a PDF and output an HTML […]

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PHP – Convert HTML to Xlsx

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro If you are writing php 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 You might have ended up on stackoverflow seeing old, outdated libraries or confusing answers […]

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Convert HTML to Docx with PHP

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro 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 stackoverflow seeing old, outdated libraries or confusing answers that ask you to […]

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PHP – Generate thumbnail image of PDF or Office file

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro 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 have been doing research for hours and getting nowhere. Maybe you ended […]

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PHP – take a screenshot of a website

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro 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 case, if you’re a php developer and you have been […]

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Convert HTML to Image with PHP

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro 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 websites and would like an image preview of all of them for a […]

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