pdf4me

The Pdf4me Client API is a python package which connects to its highly scalable SaaS cloud service with many functionalities to solve your document and PDF requirements. The SaaS API provides expert functionality to convert, optimize, compress, produce, merge, split, ocr, enrich, archive, print documents and PDF's.

Feature	Description
Optimize	PDF's can often be optimized by removing structural redundancy. This leads to much smaller PDF's.
Merge	Multiple PDF's can be merged into single optimized PDFs.
Split	A PDF can be splitted into multiple PDF's.
Extract	From a PDF extract multiple pages into a new document.
Images	Extract images from your document, can be any type of document.
Create Pdf/A	Create a archive conform PDF/A including xmp Metadata.
Convert to PDF	Convert your documents from any format to a proper PDF document.
Stamp	Stamp your document with text or images.
Rotate	Rotates pages in your document.
Protect	Protects or Unlocks your document with given password.
Validation	Validate your document for PDF/A compliance.
Repair	Repairs your document.
Barcode	Reads all types of barcode embedded in document or creates them

Getting Started

To get started get a Token by dropping us an email or registering in our portal.

The Token is required for Authentication. The Pdf4me Client Api provides you already with the necessary implementation. You need only to get an instance for the Pdf4meClient as shown in the sample below.

"""
Either you store them in the config.properties file with token
Do not use any quotes:
Correct: token=sample-not-working-key-aaaaaaa
Incorrect: token="sample-not-working-key-aaaaaaa"

In case the location of your config.properties differs from the default location ('../config.properties'), provide the optional argument path_to_config_file.

"""
pdf4me_client = Pdf4meClient(path_to_config_file='path_to_my_config.properties')

""" or you pass them as arguments when constructing the Pdf4meClient object """
pdf4me_client = Pdf4meClient(token=token)

# The pdf4meClient object delivers the necessary authentication when instantiating the different pdf4meClients such as for instance Merge
merge_client = MergeClient(pdf4me_client)
merged_pdf = merge_client.merge_2_pdfs(
    file1=FileReader().get_file_handler(path='my_first_pdf.pdf'),
    file2=FileReader().get_file_handler(path='my_second_pdf.pdf')
)

Documentation

Please visit our documentation for more information about all the functionalities provided and on how to use pdf4me.

Recommendation

It's recommended to create an instance of Pdf4meClient per thread in a multithreaded environment to avoid any potential issues.