Welcome to the Visual PDF API guide.
The Visual PDF user guide will allow you to understand how our REST API for processing PDF files works, and what possibilities it offers.
You will also find lots of code examples allowing you to see a concrete use of each functionality.
If you are looking for the API reference, you'll find them in our documentation.
What is Visual PDF API?
Visual PDF API is a REST API that allows developers to create their own solutions based on the PDF file processing features it offers. Developers are thus relieved of having to code these functionalities themselves and all associated needs (file saving, security rules, task parallelization, etc.). In other words, it's a huge productivity gain and a lot of headaches avoided.
In addition to this, Visual PDF API offers activity tracking and analytics features, which will allow anyone to visualize API usage in charts and lists. This data allows you to ensure that everything is working correctly, but above all to see the evolution of your solution, represented by the calls to our API.
First steps guides
If you're new to Visual PDF API, we highly recommend reading the first steps guides to get started. They will teach you how the API works, how to get credits, and all the basics that will make it easy for you to then understand the tools' guides and documentation.
Tool guides
The tool guides will allow you to discover all the functionalities of our API, and for each of them, the options available to you to best suit your needs as well as simple code examples.
Final words
The guides we write can sometimes be incomplete or even incorrect, although we try to keep them as up to date as possible.