PDFco
PDF.co connector is an excellent tool for converting raw HTML or website URL to PDF document. It also has features to merge documents of different formats into PDF, Split PDF document, adding text/images to existing PDF and filling out PDF form fields.
This connector is available in the following products and regions:
| Service | Class | Regions |
|---|---|---|
| Logic Apps | Standard | All Logic Apps regions except the following: - Azure Government regions - Azure China regions - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Power Automate | Premium | All Power Automate regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Power Apps | Premium | All Power Apps regions except the following: - US Government (GCC) - US Government (GCC High) - China Cloud operated by 21Vianet - US Department of Defense (DoD) |
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Name | PDF.co Support |
| URL | https://support.bytescout.com |
| plugins@bytescout.com |
| Connector Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | PDF.co |
| Website | https://pdf.co/ |
| Privacy policy | https://pdf.co/pages/legal/privacy |
| Categories | Productivity;Data |
PDF.co connector provides operations for Merge PDF, Split PDF, HTML to PDF, URL to PDF and modifying PDF. Merge PDF supports merging different types of documents to PDF format. For modifying PDF, it supports adding text/images to PDF and also filling out PDF forms.
Prerequisites
PDF.co requires API Key for authentication of its requests.
How to get credentials
PDF.co API key can be obtained by signing-up with PDF.co.
- Login to your PDF.co account at https://app.pdf.co
- After login API Key can be found at "View Your API Key" section.
Get started with your connector
PDF.co connector consists of following actions.
HTML to PDF
HTML to PDF action converts raw HTML to PDF format. Apart from that we can also configure advanced options such as output paper size, orientation of PDF page, margins, custom header and footer, etc.
URL to PDF
As the name suggests, URL to PDF action converts website URL to PDF document. We can configure advanced settings for output page margins, orientation, header and footer, etc.
Split PDF
This action is to split input PDF into multiple pages. We need to specify the “Pages” parameter for how many output pages are required.
Merge PDF
This action merges documents to a PDF file. Here, documents can be of different formats such as pdf, doc, text, excel, zip, etc. Input parameter “URL” requires comma separated document URLs.
PDF Filler
PDF Filler action modifies existing PDF document. With use of this action, we can add Text/Images to existing PDF as well fill PDF forms fields. We have to pass values in a specific format. For more information please visit pdf.co official documentation.
Known issues and limitations
In this initial version of PDF.co connector, only few PDF.co features are covered. One of the features missing in this initial version, is to check async job status and get completed job results.
Common errors and remedies
Input URL passed to PDF.co Action must be a valid and publicly accessible URL.
If PDF.co request returns 401 - unauthorized result, make sure you have provided valid PDF.co API key.
All requests deduct your PDF.co credits based on request processing. Hence, if your PDF.co account does not have enough credits, it’ll result in error.
FAQ
Please refer to PDF.co Knowledgebase for all QAs.
Creating a connection
The connector supports the following authentication types:
| Default | Parameters for creating connection. | All regions | Not shareable |
Default
Applicable: All regions
Parameters for creating connection.
This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Key | securestring | The API KEY for this Endpoint | True |
Throttling Limits
| Name | Calls | Renewal Period |
|---|---|---|
| API calls per connection | 100 | 60 seconds |
Actions
| HTML to PDF |
Convert HTML code snippet into full featured PDF. |
| Merge PDF |
Merge multiple documents into one new single PDF. Supports many file formats. For example, pdf, doc, docx, xls, jpg, png, etc. |
| PDF Filler |
Add text, images, signatures to pdf. Fill PDF form fields and create new pdf from templates |
| Split PDF |
Splits pages from PDF document into multiple new PDF files using page numbers and page ranges |
| URL to PDF |
Create PDF from URL |
HTML to PDF
Convert HTML code snippet into full featured PDF.
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
HTML
|
html | True | html |
Input HTML code to be converted. |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Base file name for new PDF files. |
|
|
margins
|
margins | string |
Override default margins with custom values (the order is |
|
|
Paper Size
|
paperSize | string |
Select PDF paper size. Can be Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Ledger, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6 or a custom size. Custom size can be set in px (pixels), mm or in (inches) with width and height separated by space like this: 200 300, 200px 300px, 200mm 300mm, 20cm 30cm or 6in 8in. |
|
|
Orientation
|
orientation | string |
PDF page orientation. |
|
|
Print Background
|
printBackground | boolean |
Enable or disable printing of document background |
|
|
Header
|
header | html |
Set to HTML for header to be applied on every page at the header. |
|
|
Footer
|
footer | html |
Set to HTML for footer to be applied on every page at the bottom. |
|
|
Async
|
async | boolean |
Set to true to run as async job in background |
Returns
| Name | Path | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | string |
Output document URL. |
|
Page Count
|
pageCount | integer |
Number of pages in the output document. |
|
Error
|
error | boolean |
Indicates whether the operation is successful or not. |
|
Status Code
|
status | integer |
Status code for HTTP response |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output document name |
|
Credits
|
credits | integer |
PDF.co credits used for this request |
|
Duration
|
duration | integer |
Request execution duration |
|
Remaining Credits
|
remainingCredits | integer |
PDF.co account remaining credits |
Merge PDF
Merge multiple documents into one new single PDF. Supports many file formats. For example, pdf, doc, docx, xls, jpg, png, etc.
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | True | string |
The comma-separated list of links to PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images. Enable |
|
Async
|
async | boolean |
Creates a background processing job. |
Returns
| Name | Path | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | string |
Output document URL. |
|
Page Count
|
pageCount | integer |
Number of pages in the output document. |
|
Error
|
error | boolean |
Indicates whether the operation is successful or not. |
|
Status Code
|
status | integer |
Status code for HTTP response |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output document name |
|
Credits
|
credits | integer |
PDF.co credits used for this request |
|
Duration
|
duration | integer |
Request execution duration |
|
Remaining Credits
|
remainingCredits | integer |
PDF.co account remaining credits |
PDF Filler
Add text, images, signatures to pdf. Fill PDF form fields and create new pdf from templates
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Async
|
async | boolean |
Creates a background processing job. |
|
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output PDF Name |
|
|
URL
|
url | True | string |
Url to the input PDF document |
|
Annotations String
|
annotationsString | string |
Annotation strings to be added to the PDF document. Format should be like “x;y;page;text”. Refer to PDF.co documentations for more advanced formats and examples. |
|
|
Images String
|
imagesString | string |
Images to be added to the PDF document. Format should be like “x;y;page;urltoimage;link;width;height”. Refer to PDF.co documentations for more advanced formats and examples. |
|
|
Fields String
|
fieldsString | string |
Fill PDF form fields. Format should be like “page;fieldName;value”. Refer to PDF.co documentations for more advanced formats and examples. |
Returns
| Name | Path | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | string |
Output document URL. |
|
Page Count
|
pageCount | integer |
Number of pages in the output document. |
|
Error
|
error | boolean |
Indicates whether the operation is successful or not. |
|
Status Code
|
status | integer |
Status code for HTTP response |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output document name |
|
Credits
|
credits | integer |
PDF.co credits used for this request |
|
Duration
|
duration | integer |
Request execution duration |
|
Remaining Credits
|
remainingCredits | integer |
PDF.co account remaining credits |
Split PDF
Splits pages from PDF document into multiple new PDF files using page numbers and page ranges
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | True | string |
Url to the source PDF document |
|
Pages
|
pages | True | string |
Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to split into. First page is 1 (one). Example: "1,2-5,7-". Special cases: to extract each page into separate PDF use to |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Base file name for new PDF files |
|
|
Async
|
async | boolean |
Creates a background processing job. |
Returns
| Name | Path | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
urls
|
urls | array of string |
urls |
|
Page Count
|
pageCount | integer |
Number of pages in the output document. |
|
Error
|
error | boolean |
Indicates whether the operation is successful or not. |
|
Status
|
status | integer |
Status code for HTTP response |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output document name |
|
Credits
|
credits | integer |
PDF.co credits used for this request |
|
Duration
|
duration | integer |
Request execution duration |
|
Remaining Credits
|
remainingCredits | integer |
PDF.co account remaining credits |
URL to PDF
Create PDF from URL
Parameters
| Name | Key | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | True | string |
Link to input HTML file or website page to be converted. You can pass link to file from Google Drive, Dropbox or another online file service that can generate shareable links. |
|
Margins
|
margins | string |
Margins to be used in output document. Set to css style margins like 10px, 5mm, 5in for all sides or 5px 5px 5px 5px (the order of margins is top, right, bottom, left). |
|
|
Paper Size
|
paperSize | string |
Letter is set by default. Can be Letter, Legal, Tabloid, Ledger, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6 or a custom size. Custom size can be set in px (pixels), mm or in (inches) with width and height separated by space like this: 200 300, 200px 300px, 200mm 300mm, 20cm 30cm or 6in 8in. |
|
|
Orientation
|
orientation | string |
Output page orientation |
|
|
Print Background
|
printBackground | boolean |
Enable or disable printing of document background |
|
|
Header
|
header | html |
Set to HTML for header to be applied on every page at the header. |
|
|
Footer
|
footer | html |
Set to HTML for footer to be applied on every page at the bottom. |
|
|
Async
|
async | boolean |
Creates a background processing job. |
|
|
Profiles
|
CustomScript | string |
Pass options for advanced output processing. |
Returns
| Name | Path | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
URL
|
url | string |
Output document URL. |
|
Page Count
|
pageCount | integer |
Number of pages in the output document. |
|
Error
|
error | boolean |
Indicates whether the operation is successful or not. |
|
Status Code
|
status | integer |
Status code for HTTP response |
|
Name
|
name | string |
Output document name |
|
Credits
|
credits | integer |
PDF.co credits used for this request |
|
Duration
|
duration | integer |
Request execution duration |
|
Remaining Credits
|
remainingCredits | integer |
PDF.co account remaining credits |