Increasingly content and application owners are looking for easy-to-use PDF functionality when building modern web experiences. They are looking to cloud-based platforms with simple and reliable plug-and-play services.
Adobe Document Services offers two APIs: the Adobe PDF Tools API and the Adobe PDF Embed API. Whether you’re developing a web app or web site, these APIs automate the generation, manipulation, and transformation of PDF content via a set of modern cloud-based web services. These APIs help you deliver simpler, faster, and branded experiences so that you control user interaction with your documents, streamline PDF workflows and promote usage and retention.
With tools and language support that caters to developers’ existing skillsets, you can now create compelling and consistent PDF experiences, including viewing, exporting, creating and working with PDFs.
These APIs represent a paradigm shift in the way PDF workflows exist and interact with your environment and digital documents. Adobe is rapidly evolving and expanding the portfolio of APIs to support additional use cases. We are also continually enhancing the APIs, including supporting SDKs, sample code, and documentation.
The PDF Embed API brings PDF viewing to any web application with only a few lines of JavaScript. Multiple embed modes make it easy to support different views, from full browser to boxed containers and in line. Document collaboration is achieved with support for commenting, drawing, highlighting, and text editing tools. Analytics insights provide an opportunity to embed dynamic interactivity to enhance end-user experiences with chats, prompts, and other with event triggers based on PDF viewing activity.
The PDF Tools API offers a number of operations to programmatically manipulate documents and automate many different types of document workflows. You can easily create a PDF from a dynamic HTML report, set a password to prevent unauthorized opening of the document, and compress it for sharing as an attachment. Linearize a PDF for faster web viewing when end users have a large document to read.
There are additional services to compress, linearize, and password-protect PDF documents. There are also capabilities to insert, reorder, rotate, replace, and delete pages within documents.
The PDF Tools API includes ready-to-use code samples for Java, Node.JS and .NET and offers a free trial that includes up to 1,000 free PDF transactions.
Customer feedback is particularly valuable as it helps the team validate use cases, guide development, and troubleshoot issues. Comments and questions are always welcome on the Community Forum.