PDF Rotate Pages#
Available Methods#
/pdf/edit/rotate#
Rotates selected pages inside a PDF file.
Method: POST
Endpoint: /v1/pdf/edit/rotate
Attributes#
Note
Attributes are case-sensitive and should be inside JSON for POST request, for example:
{
"url": "https://example.com/file1.pdf"
}
Attribute |
Description |
Required |
---|---|---|
|
URL to the source file. 1 |
yes |
|
Angle in degrees. Supported values |
no |
|
HTTP auth user name if required to access source |
no |
|
HTTP auth password if required to access source |
no |
|
Comma-separated indices of pages (or page ranges) that you want to use. The first-page index is always 0. For example, if you have a 7-page document that you want to be split into 3 separate PDFs but a different number of pages it would go like this: 0, 1, 2- or 1, 2, 3-7 which will result in 1 PDF with page one, 1 PDF with page two and one PDF with the rest of the pages. You can also use inverted page numbers adding |
no |
|
Set |
no |
|
Use this parameter to set additional configurations for fine-tuning and extra options. Explore the Profiles section for more. |
no |
Query parameters#
No query parameters accepted.
Payload#
{
"url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-optimize/sample.pdf",
"name": "result.pdf",
"angle": 90,
"pages": "0-2,4"
}
Response 2#
{
"url": "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2EK4QYIZU1XUEUH853VTSK47NPLXCUYX/result.pdf?X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Security-Token=FwoGZXIvYXdzEFsaDC5Vfgoi83YzdW9HXiKCAYBVHK096wqoUyu8Ckq8jEhV1DBv9VzHY1EcPWvfG3L2YrFa8QC5ZMr3UhFEn4%2B%2B2u6e%2FcdZd%2FXbdVaI45yNE%2Btz28UHMVxCQUClj9kCHrMyJ4W1%2BlnDgLi9JUHt7SkIvV9Lj7GLDBOXy22KCND86HdtPg0uT%2FNQtcjJm%2F34cISImKYov63NlQYyKG%2BEO%2FQLP%2BzJuugBdSLcKUOTL52dnc1l82ye1u5kYvTlbfPMdisU1tY%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIA4NRRSZPHESTCUXXF/20220623/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220623T135902Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=78f2fe7f22ebd1fc2c329a855c7582f9deb09c0c5045281b9b2420a5afb792cf",
"fileSize": 1064923,
"pageCount": 4,
"error": false,
"status": 200,
"name": "result.pdf",
"credits": 28,
"duration": 245,
"remainingCredits": 98194839
}
CURL#
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/rotate' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--data-raw '{
"url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-optimize/sample.pdf",
"name": "result.pdf",
"angle": 90,
"pages": "0-2,4"
}'
/pdf/edit/rotate/auto#
Uses AI to automatically fix the rotation of pages inside scanned PDF based on text analysis. To change text language change the lang
parameter (eng
by default).
Method: POST
Endpoint: /v1/pdf/edit/rotate/auto
Attributes#
Note
Attributes are case-sensitive and should be inside JSON for POST request, for example:
{
"url": "https://example.com/file1.pdf"
}
Attribute |
Description |
Required |
---|---|---|
|
URL to the source file. 1 |
yes |
|
Set the language for OCR (text from image) to use for scanned PDF, PNG, and JPG documents input when extracting text. The default is |
no |
|
HTTP auth user name if required to access source |
no |
|
HTTP auth password if required to access source |
no |
|
Set |
no |
|
Use this parameter to set additional configurations for fine-tuning and extra options. Explore the Profiles section for more. |
no |
Query parameters#
No query parameters accepted.
Payload#
{
"url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-fix-rotation/rotated_pages.pdf",
"name": "result.pdf"
}
Response 2#
{
"url": "https://pdf-temp-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/HQ86WA7MFED1Q7C843NDSKVRW5AFVTMP/result.pdf?X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Security-Token=FwoGZXIvYXdzEFwaDD6ndEhlfId4KouQ8yKCASr8amowIV2tLAi%2BhjnlVi%2FNYjf8ZJ3MqgKWsYVm5dQ8fQx7hceGdmtqhB6OH8t9xdacbMEcoMIpQr1BcSSfu2ZFfGFBDaHNpaSTfPXhkNnQaZFOi5KFozZiPBP9xPoSCV%2Fj%2BLIrDsOF%2Fb89i1Nd4OJFoXnfhjf03ZHJ%2BNCQEC%2BbePsovsjNlQYyKIV1qb1wGdwgJ%2ByibJ5x%2BQGoG4x2ebnEGTQkKBf4zobYT9Uv6FVQ%2FJg%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIA4NRRSZPHB3D5EZ56/20220623/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220623T141005Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=351ad45980cad0d3f634f7b784d5445b9c4e1ad2244912f56ea065209d73bb30",
"fileSize": 455115,
"pageCount": 3,
"error": false,
"status": 200,
"name": "result.pdf",
"credits": 84,
"duration": 6002,
"remainingCredits": 98194629
}
CURL#
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/edit/rotate/auto' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--data-raw '{
"url": "https://pdfco-test-files.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pdf-fix-rotation/rotated_pages.pdf",
"name": "result.pdf"
}'
Footnotes
- 1(1,2)
Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox, and PDF.co Built-In Files Storage. To upload files via the API check out the File Upload section. Note: If you experience intermittent Too Many Requests or Access Denied errors, please try to add
cache:
to enable built-in URL caching. (e.gcache:https://example.com/file1.pdf
) For data security, you have the option to encrypt output files and decrypt input files. Learn more about user-controlled data encryption.- 2(1,2)
Main response codes as follows:
Code
Description
200
Success
400
Bad request. Typically happens because of bad input parameters, or because the input URLs can’t be reached, possibly due to access restrictions like needing a login or password.
401
Unauthorized
402
Not enough credits
445
Timeout error. To process large documents or files please use asynchronous mode (set the
async
parameter totrue
) and then check status using the /job/check endpoint. If a file contains many pages then specify a page range using thepages
parameter. The number of pages of the document can be obtained using the /pdf/info endpoint.Note
For more see the complete list of available response codes.