PDF.ai API

Spec sheet

Privacy

The maker says uploaded documents are encrypted during storage and transmission and offers a private document option that keeps documents out of its cloud storage.Read 7 Oct 2026 · pdf.ai

API purpose

PDF.ai API v2 provides PDF parsing, structured extraction, section splitting, and question answering through HTTP endpoints.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Ask and Split costs

Ask costs 3 credits per page across queried documents, while Split costs 2 credits per page, with parsing charges added when a cached document ID is not supplied.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Authentication

API requests use an X-API-Key header, and the maker says a generated key is shown only once.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Caching

Parse results reused with the same document ID and settings cost zero credits, and cached document IDs can avoid parse charges for Extract and Split.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Credit usage

Parse costs 1 credit per page at standard quality or 2 at advanced quality; optional image LLM processing adds 1 credit per 5 images, rounded up.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Developer examples

The endpoint documentation includes examples in cURL, Python, Node.js, and PHP.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Document Q&A

Ask answers questions about one or more previously parsed documents, and every document ID must have been parsed first.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Extract limits

Extract costs 2 credits per page for schemas with five or fewer fields and 4 credits per page for schemas with more than five fields, plus parsing credits when needed.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Extraction

Extract accepts a JSON schema and returns structured data with citations linking fields to source segments in the PDF.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Intended use

The maker describes API v2 as suited to automation, integration into a user's product, and batch processing that returns JSON over HTTP.Read 7 Oct 2026 · pdf.ai

Parse

The Parse endpoint converts PDFs to Markdown or JSON and supports OCR, table formatting, and image extraction.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

Section finding

Split identifies pages matching named section descriptions and returns confidence levels.Read 7 Oct 2026 · api.pdf.ai

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Where Specifiction places it

• AI PDF Assistants#16 of 277.8
• PDF API Software#22 of 357.7
• AI PDF Tools#22 of 307.7