Getting Started

Get started quickly with pdfRest Self-Hosted API products on AWS to integrate PDF processing into your projects.

Self-Host Your pdfRest API Service

Choose your product, your deployment type, your security. Full control in your cloud.

Free One Week Trial!

All pdfRest Self-Hosted API on AWS products have access to a free one-week trial on the AWS Marketplace for new customers. Get hands-on experience with the Self-Hosted API before without any software charges. Customers are responsible for any related infrastructure costs billed by AWS.


Choosing Your Product

There are a variety of pdfRest Self-Hosted API products available in the marketplace to suit your document workflow solution requirements.

PDF Toolkit Self-Hosted API

Over 25 powerful API Tools to convert, optimize, modify, inspect, secure, and simplify your digital documents and processing workflows.

Includes all the standard PDF processing tools you'd expect, such as Convert to PDF, Compress PDF, Merge PDFs, and Split PDF, as well as professional-grade tools like Flatten Transparencies, Convert to PDF/A, and Extract Text to prepare your documents for specific use cases, like print, archival, and machine learning.

PDF Forms Pro Self-Hosted API

The one-stop-shop for automation and batch processing of PDF form documents with all the API Tools you'll need.

Avoid manual data entry and save time by directly filling forms with external data. Extract form field values to collect data from multiple documents and aggregate into a single repository. Lock form field values to prevent further modification. Flatten PDF forms to make them universally compatible with all PDF viewing and processing applications. pdfRest offers the only REST API service for processing all PDF form types including Static XFA, Dynamic XFA, and Acroforms.

PDF to Office Pro Self-Hosted API

All of the tools for transforming static PDFs into fully editable Microsoft Office formats.

This toolkit handles everything you need, seamlessly converting your PDFs into Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. PDF to Office Pro integrates effortlessly with any development project. Its intuitive API allows you to seamlessly add powerful PDF conversion capabilities to your applications, streamlining workflows and empowering users to unlock the true potential of their documents.

Subscribing on the AWS Marketplace

Once you've determined which of the three products above you intend to deploy on AWS, you will need to Subscribe to the product on the AWS Marketplace:

  1. From the AWS Marketplace product page (links to product pages above), click the "View Purchase Options" or "Try for Free" buttons. Both buttons take you to the same page.
  2. Accept the Terms and Conditions of the pdfRest Offer.
  3. After the Offer has finished processing, click on the "Continue to Configuration" button.
  4. Follow the Deploy on AWS guide to deploy via the CloudFormation Template or Amazon Machine Image.

Deploying in AWS

Access the Deployment guide to learn how to deploy the pdfRest Self-Hosted API using the manual Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or the fully-automated CloudFormation Template (CFN).

Configuring Your Deployment

From the basics of accessing your API deployment to advanced environmental variables , learn all about configuring and optimizing your Self-Hosted API using our Configuration guide.

Calling the API

The Deployment and Configuration documentation will have described (and showed how to configure) the private or public URL used to access your Self-Hosted API deployment.

Whether you use code generated by The API Lab, or create your own based on the Self-Hosted API Reference Guide, the pdfRest API is universally accessible.

Develop with desktop, web, and mobile applications, no- and low-code solutions such as Zapier, Bubble.io, Microsoft Power Automate, and so much more.

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Deploy on AWS
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