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Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:40PM (#30715097)

I'm sorry you find it distasteful - that was never our intention. What we found was that a user searching for a PDF generator, creator or writer are generally looking for the same solution - to create a PDF. So by repositioning our tool we were hoping to provide a better landing page experience for users that were searching for one of those specific keywords.

Of course the downside is as you've pointed out - it can be seen as distasteful and in some cases confusing to our users. We will review this on our side and see if it makes sense to remove some of those tools to reduce confusion.

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:58AM (#30711865)

We've had customers in beta trying it out with multi-page tables and we've heard positive feedback.

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:46AM (#30711089)

Do you mean tables when converting HTML to PDF, or simply rendering the PDFs with tables in them?

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:08AM (#30710732)

Thanks for the feedback! For those that need larger volume, we also have an on-premise product: https://pspdfkit.com/api/documentation/deployment-options/.

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:59AM (#30710654)

Our engine is based on Google's PDFium, which is Apache licensed. We use it for rendering and reading the PDF object tree. Editing, annotations, etc. are all built on top of that.

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:18AM (#30710303)

With an annual plan of 10,000 documents per month, we charge $0.04 per document. If you try it out, I'd love to hear your feedback on the quality of OCR!

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:43AM (#30710008)

That's a great point. For folks that have strong privacy needs, we do have an on-premise product that provides the same functionality [1].

[1] https://pspdfkit.com/server/processor/

Re:Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:22AM (#30709858)

Signing is something we'd like to explore, we often hear from folks who'd want to simplify their signing workflows. Thanks for the feedback!

Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents

Posted by arkgil on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:24AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi HN,Arek here. We’re super excited to officially launch PSPDFKit API [1].PSPDFKit API is a collection of HTTP APIs that enable you to convert, generate, and edit documents without running any service on your infrastructure.What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. For example, you can convert, OCR, watermark,...

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Re:Erlang Performance Lab on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:51AM (#14076568)

Thank you for the feedback! Looking at all the comments here, we will definitely look into improving documentation.

As for network traffic, we use net_kernel module which allows to track throughput between nodes in the cluster. It doesn't rely on specifics you system.