n8n-nodes-pdfco
This is an n8n community node that enables you to integrate PDF.co's powerful PDF processing capabilities into your n8n workflows. PDF.co is a comprehensive PDF processing API that allows you to convert, merge, split, and manipulate PDF documents programmatically.
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Installation
Operations
Credentials
Usage
Resources
Version history
Installation
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For users on n8n v0.187+, you can install this node directly from the n8n Community Nodes panel in the n8n editor:
1. Open your n8n editor
2. Go to Settings > Community Nodes
3. Search for "n8n-nodes-pdfco"
4. Click Install
5. Reload the editor
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You can also install this node manually:
1. Navigate to your n8n installation directory
2. Run the following command:
``bash
npm install n8n-nodes-pdfco
``
3. Restart your n8n server
Operations
This node provides comprehensive PDF processing capabilities through PDF.co's API. Here are the available features:
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- AI Invoice Parser: Extract data from invoices using AI-powered parsing
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- URL to PDF
- HTML to PDF
- HTML Template to PDF
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- Merge multiple PDFs into one
- Support for merging from different file formats (merge2)
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- Split by page number
- Split by search text
- Split by barcode
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- Document to PDF (RTF, DOC, DOCX, TXT)
- Spreadsheet to PDF (CSV, XLS, XLSX, TXT Spreadsheet)
- Image to PDF (JPG, PNG, TIFF)
- Email to PDF (MSG or EML)
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- PDF to CSV
- PDF to HTML
- PDF to Images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WEBP)
- PDF to JSON
- PDF to Text
- PDF to Excel (XLS/XLSX)
- PDF to XML
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- Add text annotations
- Add images to PDF documents
- Fill interactive PDF forms with data
- Extract PDF metadata
- Get form field information
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- Compress PDF files
- Optimize PDF for web or storage
- Remove password protection
- Add password protection
- Rotate pages in PDF documents
- Remove specific pages from PDF
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- Search for text within PDF documents
- Search and delete text
- Search and replace text
- Search and replace with image
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- Extract barcode data from PDFs
- Generate barcodes in PDFs
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- Make scanned PDF searchable (OCR)
- Make searchable PDF unsearchable
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- Standard file upload
- Create file URL from input text/content
- Upload from Base64 encoded data
Credentials
To use this node, you need a PDF.co API key. Here's how to get started:
1. Sign up for a PDF.co account at https://pdf.co
2. Navigate to your dashboard and obtain your API key
3. In n8n, add your PDF.co credentials by providing your API key
Usage
This node allows you to automate PDF processing tasks in your n8n workflows. Here are some common use cases:
- Process invoices using AI-powered parsing
- Automatically convert HTML reports to PDF
- Merge multiple PDF documents into a single file
- Extract text from PDF documents for data processing
- Add watermarks to PDF documents
- Compress PDF files to reduce size
- Secure PDFs with password protection
- Convert various document formats to PDF
- Extract data from PDFs to other formats
- Manage and modify PDF documents programmatically
For detailed examples and workflow templates, visit our documentation.
Resources
* n8n community nodes documentation
* PDF.co API Documentation
* PDF.co Pricing
Version history
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- Initial release with comprehensive PDF processing capabilities
- Full integration with PDF.co API services
- Support for all core PDF operations including conversion, merging, and modification
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- Enhanced documentation with improved installation and usage instructions
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- Improved code stability and performance
- Enhanced error handling and response management
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- Improved code stability and performance
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- AI Invoice Parser: Added support for custom field extraction, enabling more flexible and tailored data parsing.
- Added user-friendly descriptions for all PDF.co modules to help users better understand each feature's capabilities
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- Search PDF/Convert From PDF: Added support for the Inline option, enabling direct file output
- Barcode Generator: Resolved an issue affecting barcode generation functionality.
- Updated description links to point to new dedicated documentation
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- AI Invoice Parser: Clearer field descriptions and helpful usage hints