PDF Rotate Pages#

/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

URL to the source file. 1

yes

angle

Angle in degrees. Supported values 90, 180, and 270.

no

httpusername

HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.

no

httppassword

HTTP auth password if required to access source url.

no

pages

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 ! before the number. E.g. !0 means “the last page”, 1-!1 means “from the second to the penultimate page”, and !1- - “last two pages”. Also, you can use a single asterisk (*) character as the range to split the document into separate pages. The input must be in string format.

no

async

Set async to true for long processes to run in the background, API will then return a jobId which you can use with the Background Job Check endpoint to check the status of the process and retrieve the output while you can proceed with other tasks.

no

profiles

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

URL to the source file. 1

yes

lang

Set the language for OCR (text from image) to use for scanned PDF, PNG, and JPG documents input when extracting text. The default is eng. Other languages are also supported: deu, spa, chi_sim, jpn, and many others, see Language Support. You can also use 2 languages simultaneously like this: eng+deu or jpn+kor (any combination).

no

httpusername

HTTP auth user name if required to access source url.

no

httppassword

HTTP auth password if required to access source url.

no

async

Set async to true for long processes to run in the background, API will then return a jobId which you can use with the Background Job Check endpoint to check the status of the process and retrieve the output while you can proceed with other tasks.

no

profiles

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.g cache: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)

Response codes as follows:

Code

Description

200

The request has succeeded

400

Bad input parameters

401

Unauthorized

403

Not enough credits

405

Timeout error. To process large documents or files please use asynchronous mode (set the async parameter to true) and then check status using the /job/check endpoint. If a file contains many pages then specify a page range using the pages parameter. The number of pages of the document can be obtained using the /pdf/info endpoint.