Response Codes

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Introducing the general concepts for using the PDF.co API, authentication methods, response codes and sample code.

Getting Started

Understanding Sync and Async Modes

Process invoices faster than ever by extracting data and structuring it automatically with our advanced AI. Get quick and accurate data from any invoice, no matter the layout.

AI Invoice Parser

Extract Attachment

Add text, images, forms, other PDFs, fill forms, links to external sites and external PDF files. You can update or modify PDF and scanned PDF files.

PDF Add

Delete text from the PDF document with search strings.

PDF Search and Delete Text

Convert PDF and scanned images into CSV representation with layout, columns, rows, and tables.

PDF to CSV

Convert PDF to XML with information about text value, tables, fonts, images, objects positions.

PDF to XML

Convert PDF and scanned images into HTML representation with text, fonts, images, vectors, formatting preserved.

PDF to HTML

Convert `JPG`, `PNG`, `TIFF` image formats into `PDF`.

PDF from Image

PDF from URL

Convert email files (`.msg` or `.eml`) code into PDF. Extract attachments (if any) from input email and embeds into PDF as PDF attachments.

PDF from Email

PDF Compress

PDF Optimize (DEPRECATED)

Get detailed information about a **PDF** document, it’s properties and security permissions.

PDF Info Reader

Checks the [status](#available-status-values) of a background job that was previously created with PDF.co API. Use this API to check the status of your asynchronous API calls.

Background & Job Check

Get Account Balance Info

Use this endpoint to automatically sort / detect the class of the document based on keywords-based rules. For example, you can define rules to find which vendor provided the document to find which template to apply accordingly.

Document Classifier

Deletes selected pages inside a PDF file.

PDF Delete Pages

This page describes the `profiles` parameter that can be used with your API calls.

Profiles

Postman

Webhook and Callbacks

URL Input and Request Limits

Language Support

PDF.co can be integrated with a lot of online applications, services and platforms with little or no coding experience required.
 Automate your tasks and manage your workflows to achieve your goals, for example, automatically trigger events on documents or emails as they arrive in your inbox or easily create PDF invoices from templates.

PDF.co Integrations

[Make](https://www.make.com) is a visual platform that lets you design, build, and automate anything – from simple tasks to complex workflows – in minutes. With **Make**, you can send information between **PDF.co** and thousands of apps to improve document workflows and data extraction processes seamlessly. It’s fast and easy to use, visually intuitive and requires zero coding expertise.

Getting Started with Make

Getting Started with Zapier

The PDF.co n8n community node enables fast and easy automation of PDF-related tasks within n8n workflows. Built on the PDF.co API, this node allows you to programmatically convert, merge, split, and extract data from PDF documents. As a community-maintained integration, it helps streamline document processing without complex coding, making it ideal for automating business operations involving PDFs.

Getting Started with n8n

[Microsoft Power Automate](https://make.powerautomate.com) formerly known as **Microsoft Flow** is one of the main features of **Microsoft’s Power Platform**. It is a service that can be used to automate business workflow. It has a guided and no\-code functionality that makes it possible for everyone to easily automate time\-consuming tasks and processes. It offers seamless integration to other apps using a pre\-built **Connector Library** to create small and large\-scale systems.

Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate

Integrating SharePoint, OneDrive, and other storage platforms into your Power Automate workflows with PDF.co can streamline document processing. This guide provides detailed steps for linking these sources and efficiently managing documents with PDF.co in Power Automate.

Integrating File Sources with PDF.co

[Google Apps Script](https://developers.google.com/apps-script) is a scripting platform designed for rapid application development for the fast and easy creation of business applications that integrate with **G Suite** products. Modern **JavaScript** is the scripting language being used to write codes. **Apps Script** includes built\-in libraries for **G Suite** applications such as **Drive**, **Calendar**, **Gmail**, and more.

Google Apps Script

[Salesforce](http://salesforce.com/) provides customer relationship management services and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development.

Salesforce

[Pabbly Connect](https://www.pabbly.com/connect/) is an online automation solution that connects two or more apps to manage and automate repetitive and manual tasks. It supports 800\+ apps integration for seamless real\-time data transfer.

Pabbly Connect

[Airtable](https://airtable.com/) is a cloud\-based project management system that was founded on the belief that software shouldn’t dictate how you work.

Airtable

[SharePoint](https://sharepoint.microsoft.com/) is a web\-based platform that integrates with other **Microsoft** services.

Sharepoint

Find answers to frequently asked questions and explore helpful guides across topics like account management, pricing, platform security, common errors, and more. Organized by category to help you quickly resolve issues and make the most of PDF.co.

Code	Description
`200`	Success.
`204`	No content. The server successfully processed the request, and is not returning any content.
`400`	Bad request. Typically due to bad input parameters or unreachable input URLs (e.g., access restrictions like login or password).
`401`	Unauthorized. Authentication is required and has failed or has not yet been provided.
`402`	Not enough credits.
`403`	Access forbidden for input URL.
`404`	The requested resource could not be found.
`408`	The server timed out waiting for the request.
`414`	The URI provided was too long for the server to process.
`415`	The request entity has a media type not supported by the server or resource.
`429`	Too many requests in a given time period (see: rate limiting).
`441`	Invalid Password. Password protected document.
`442`	Input document is damaged or of incorrect type.
`443`	Permissions. The operation is prohibited by document security settings. You can turn off this check by setting the `profiles` param to `{CheckPermissions: false}`. Important: only use this if you are the owner or have legal permission.
`444`	Profiles parsing error. Please ensure that the configuration is supported. See `/profiles` samples.
`445`	Timeout error. For large documents, use asynchronous mode (`async=true`) and check status via `/job/check`. For many-page files, use the `pages` parameter.
`446`	Some files required for conversion are missing.
`447`	Invalid template.
`448`	Invalid URL or HTML. Ensure the provided URL is valid and accessible.
`449`	Invalid index range. Page index is out of range. Use `/pdf/info` to get page count. First page is `0`.
`450`	Invalid page range specified.
`452`	Invalid URL.
`454`	Invalid parameters.
`455`	Failed to send email.
`456`	Invalid color. Should be a valid name (e.g., “Red”) or hex string (e.g., “#CCBBAA” or “CCBBAA”).
`457`	SMTP server blocked.
`466`	Invalid base64 image.
`490`	Incorrect result data.
`500`	Something went wrong. Please try again or contact support.
`501`	Not implemented. The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and received an invalid response.
`502`	Bad gateway. The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and received an invalid response.
`503`	Service unavailable. Server is overloaded or under maintenance.
`504`	Gateway timeout. Server didn’t get a timely response from upstream.
`505`	HTTP version not supported.

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