What it does
pdfRest provides APIs for PDF analysis, conversion, optimization, extraction, forms, and document changes. The Datalogics product is available through hosted, AWS, and container deployment routes.
Choose an operation and pass its output resource ID to later steps, then download the final file before retention expires. The worked refry example converts PDF to PostScript and back with an explicit profile, but warns that this can remove forms, tags and other features. Cloud Starter includes 100 calls monthly with watermarked files, redacted text results, a 100 MB upload cap and five-minute retention. Processing, deletion and status polling can count separately. Container and AWS have different licensing, costs and tool availability; some tools are Cloud-only.
Strengths
- Provides a broad PDF-processing toolkit with several deployment routes.
Watch out for
- Free Cloud output is restricted and retained for five minutes; chained processing and polling can consume several calls.
Best for
- Developers integrating document operations into an application