n8n-nodes-pdf-api-hub

An n8n community node for PDF API Hub (Get your api key from https://pdfapihub.com) that can:

• Parse PDFs and extract text/structured data
• OCR PDFs/images into searchable text
• Merge and split PDFs
• Compress PDFs
• Lock and unlock password-protected PDFs
• Convert images to PDF (PNG/WebP/JPG)
• Convert PDFs to images (PNG/WebP/JPG)
• Convert Office-like documents to PDF (DOCX/DOC/PPTX/XLSX/etc.)
• Convert PDFs to DOCX
• Convert a website URL to a PDF (screenshot)
• Convert HTML/CSS to a PDF
• Convert URL/HTML to image
• Fetch HTML from URL
• Watermark PDF/image files

Table of contents

• Install
• Get your API key (PDF API Hub)
• Credentials setup (n8n)
• How outputs work (URL vs File vs Base64)
• Operations
  • PDF Parse / Extract Text
  • PDF OCR Parse
  • Image OCR Parse
  • PDF Merge
  • PDF Split
  • PDF Compress
  • PDF Lock
  • PDF Unlock
  • Image to PDF (PNG/WebP/JPG)
  • Document to PDF (DOCX/DOC/PPTX/XLSX/etc.)
  • PDF to DOCX
  • PDF to Image (PNG/WebP/JPG)
  • URL to PDF (Website Screenshot)
  • HTML to PDF
  • URL to Image
  • HTML to Image
  • URL to HTML
  • Watermark (PDF/Image)
• Support

Install

Follow the official n8n community node install docs: https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/community-nodes/installation/

In n8n:

1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes
2. Click Install a community node
3. Enter: n8n-nodes-pdf-api-hub
4. Click Install

Get your API key (PDF API Hub)

1. Go to https://pdfapihub.com
2. Sign up / log in
3. Open your dashboard and find the API Key / API Keys section
4. Create/copy your API key

If the UI changes, use the official docs as the source of truth: https://pdfapihub.com/docs

Credentials setup (n8n)

1. In n8n, go to Credentials
2. Create a credential: PDF API Hub API
3. Paste your API key
4. Save

This node authenticates by sending:

• Header: CLIENT-API-KEY: <your-key>
• Requests are made against: https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1

How outputs work (URL vs File vs Base64)

Many operations offer an output format/type:

• URL: the API returns a URL in the JSON response
• File: the node downloads the generated PDF/ZIP and returns it as binary data in n8n (binary.data)
• Base64: the API returns base64 in the JSON response

Tip: If you choose File, you can pass the binary to nodes like Write Binary File, Google Drive, S3, Email, etc.

URL normalization:

• If a URL does not start with http:// or https://, this node auto-adds https://.
• If it already starts with http:// or https://, it is used as-is.

Operations

API reference docs: https://pdfapihub.com/docs

PDF Parse / Extract Text

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/pdf/parse
• Node: Resource → PDF Parse / Extract Text
• Operation: Extract Text / Parse PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL: Publicly accessible PDF URL (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name: incoming binary PDF (File mode)
• Parse Mode: text (default), layout, tables, full
• Pages: all or a range like 1-3

Returns: JSON (extracted text/structure)

PDF OCR Parse

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/pdf/ocr/parse
• Node: Resource → OCR to Searchable Text (PDF/Image)
• Operation: PDF OCR Parse

Parameters:

• PDF Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL (default: https://pdfapihub.com/sample-pdfinvoice-with-image.pdf) (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name: incoming binary PDF (File mode)
• Pages: page number or all (default: 1, max supported: 8)
• Language, DPI, PSM, OEM

Returns: JSON (OCR text)

Image OCR Parse

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/image/ocr/parse
• Node: Resource → OCR to Searchable Text (PDF/Image)
• Operation: Image OCR Parse

Parameters:

• Image Input Type: url, base64, or file
• Image URL (default: https://pdfapihub.com/sample-invoicepage.png) (URL mode)
• Base64 Image (Base64 mode)
• Binary Property Name: incoming binary image (File mode)
• Language, PSM, OEM

Returns: JSON (OCR text)

PDF Merge

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/pdf/merge
• Node: Resource → PDF Merge / Split / Compress
• Operation: Merge PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url (URLs) or file (Binary upload)
• URLs: list of PDF URLs (in order) (when Input Type = URL)
• Binary Property Names: one or more incoming binary properties containing PDFs (when Input Type = File)
• Output Format: url / file / base64

Returns:

• url / base64: JSON
• file: binary PDF

PDF Split

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/pdf/split
• Node: Resource → PDF Merge / Split / Compress
• Operation: Split PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL: URL of the PDF to split (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name: incoming binary PDF (File mode)
• Split Type:
  • pages (extract specific pages)
  • each (split every page)
  • chunks (split into N chunks)
• Pages: e.g. 1-3,5 (only for pages)
• Number of Chunks: (only for chunks)
• Output Format: url / file / base64

Returns:

• url / base64: JSON
• file: binary (often a ZIP or PDF, depending on the API response)

PDF Compress

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/compressPdf
• Node: Resource → PDF Merge / Split / Compress
• Operation: Compress PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Compression Level: low / medium / high / max
• Output Type: url / file / base64
• Output Filename: used when output is file

Returns:

• url / base64: JSON
• file: binary PDF

PDF Lock

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/lockPdf
• Node: Resource → PDF Security (Lock / Unlock)
• Operation: Lock PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Password: password to set
• Input Password: optional (if the input PDF is already encrypted)
• Output Type: url / file / base64
• Output Filename

Returns:

• url / base64: JSON
• file: binary PDF

PDF Unlock

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/unlockPdf
• Node: Resource → PDF Security (Lock / Unlock)
• Operation: Unlock PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Password: password to unlock
• Output Type: url / file / base64
• Output Filename

Returns:

• url / base64: JSON
• file: binary PDF

URL to PDF (Website Screenshot)

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/generatePdf
• Node: Resource → Website / HTML to PDF
• Operation: URL to PDF

Parameters:

• URL: website URL to capture
• Full Page: capture full page or viewport
• Wait Till: delay in ms before capture
• Viewport Width / Height
• Output Format: url / file
• Output Filename
• Timeout: request timeout in seconds

Returns:

• url: JSON with a PDF URL
• file: binary PDF

Image to PDF (PNG/WebP/JPG)

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/image/pdf
• Node: Resource → Image to PDF
• Operations: PNG to PDF, WebP to PDF, JPG to PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url / base64 / file
• URL placeholders:
  • PNG: https://pdfapihub.com/sample.png
  • WebP: https://pdfapihub.com/sample.webp
  • JPG: https://pdfapihub.com/sample.jpg
• Output Format: url / base64 / both / file
• Output Filename

Document to PDF (DOCX/DOC/PPTX/XLSX/etc.)

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/document/pdf
• Node: Resource → Document Conversion
• Operation: DOCX / Document to PDF

Parameters:

• Input Type: url / base64 / file
• Document URL (URL mode)
• Base64 File (Base64 mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Input Format (optional): doc, docx, odt, rtf, txt, ppt, pptx, odp, xls, xlsx, ods
• Output Format: url / base64 / both / file
• Output Filename

PDF to DOCX

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/pdf/docx
• Node: Resource → Document Conversion
• Operation: PDF to DOCX

Parameters:

• Input Type: url / base64 / file
• PDF URL (URL mode)
• Base64 PDF (Base64 mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Output Format: url / base64 / both / file
• Output Filename

PDF to Image (PNG/WebP/JPG)

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/pdf/image
• Node: Resource → PDF to Image
• Operations: PDF to PNG, PDF to WebP, PDF to JPG

Parameters:

• Input Type: url or file
• PDF URL (URL mode)
• Binary Property Name (File mode)
• Pages, DPI, Quality, Output Format

HTML to PDF

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/generatePdf
• Node: Resource → Website / HTML to PDF
• Operation: HTML to PDF

Parameters:

• HTML Content
• CSS Content
• Dynamic Params: optional key/value replacements for templating
• Viewport Width / Height
• Output Format: url / file
• Output Filename
• Timeout: request timeout in seconds

Returns:

• url: JSON with a PDF URL
• file: binary PDF

URL to Image

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/generateImage
• Node: Resource → Website / HTML to Image
• Operation: URL to Image

Returns JSON or binary image (based on output format).

HTML to Image

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/generateImage
• Node: Resource → Website / HTML to Image
• Operation: HTML to Image

Returns JSON or binary image (based on output format).

URL to HTML

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/url-to-html
• Node: Resource → URL to HTML
• Operation: Fetch HTML

Defaults include URL http://example.com/.

Watermark (PDF/Image)

• Endpoint: POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/watermark
• Node: Resource → Watermark PDF
• Operation: Add Watermark

Supports URL/base64/file input and file/url/base64/both output.

Support

• PDF API Hub documentation: https://pdfapihub.com/docs
• Website: https://pdfapihub.com
• Issues/bugs: https://github.com/Pdfapihub/n8n-nodes-pdf-api-hub/issues

License

MIT