PDF Generator API

Secure & Scalable Document Generation API

Tired of manual document processes hindering your business growth? PDF Generator API provides the robust solution you need to automate high-volume PDF generation. Empower your teams to create consistent, professional, and data-rich documents effortlessly, driving efficiency and freeing up valuable resources for strategic initiatives.

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Create template, generate document, review & sign using single API.
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From idea to shipped document, in three steps.

Create your template, connect it to your product, then do more with signing, forms and compliance. All on one API and account.

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Step oneCreate your document

Genuinely powerful WYSIWYG editor
with an AI template builder

What you see is what you get.

Build documents that most editors simply cannot. Page layout, logic and data all live in one template.

Comparing your options? See how we stack up against the competition and judge for yourself.

  • Embeddable in your application
  • Page breaks
  • Headers and footers
  • Conditional formatting
  • Dynamic tables
  • Barcodes and QR codes
  • Expression language
  • Custom HTML and CSS
  • Live preview
  • Reusable templates
  • Batch generation
  • Drag and drop editor

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No document yet?Already have one?

Template ready. Now connect it to your product.

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Step twoIntegrate and generate

Manage your PDF Documents with ease.

Whether you need invoice PDFs, packing slips, contracts or labels, generate documents with the data you already have. Let your users edit their templates without any development effort.

Choose one of three ways: connect your AI agent through MCP, call the REST API, or use a ready integration.

1Get your credentials
Your Workspace identifier is your email address. Find your API key and API secret on the Settings page of your account.
2Add the MCP connector
Point your AI client at mcp.pdfgeneratorapi.com/mcp with a Bearer JWT. Works in Claude, Cursor, Cline and n8n.
3Ask your AI
It picks the right tool from 49 available and returns the document.
Generate an invoice PDF for Acme Corp
Claude SkillOptional
Add template-builder. Describe a document or drop in a PDF to get a ready template. View on GitHub
curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://us1.pdfgeneratorapi.com/api/v4/documents/generate' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer REPLACE_BEARER_TOKEN' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"template": {"id": 123, "data": {"name": "John Smith", "role": "Developer"}}}'

Advanced API documentationEvery endpoint, parameter and response in the full API reference.

Live and generating. There is more you can do.

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Step threeDo more with your documents

Explore more PDF services.

Your templates are just the start. Extend them with signing, forms, conversion and compliance, all on the same API and account.

Document signing & review

Generate a document from your template, then open it in a guided review and sign flow, with no separate e-signature vendor.

  • Signature capture in the viewer
  • Full audit trail and versioning
  • Encrypted storage with retention
  • Reach it with output=viewer

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Web forms

Turn any template into a fillable web form and generate the finished PDF the moment it is submitted.

  • No code form builder
  • Text, dates, selections and uploads
  • Instant PDF on submission
  • Send data via callback URL

Explore web forms

HTML to PDF

Convert any HTML or URL into a pixel perfect PDF at scale, with full control over headers, footers and page breaks.

  • Consistent output across devices
  • Drag and drop template editor
  • PDF/A-3b and PDF 1.7 output
  • No code Zapier and Make integrations

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PDF accessibility

Generate PDF/UA compliant documents and remediate existing PDFs to meet the European Accessibility Act, with no tagging engine to build.

  • Automatic PDF/UA structural tagging
  • Remediate legacy documents
  • Data driven compliance at scale
  • ISO 27001 and GDPR protected

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E-Invoice

Turn JSON data into compliant EN 16931, XRechnung and Factur-X e-invoices automatically, with no manual XML work.

  • JSON to XML transformation
  • XRechnung and Factur-X output
  • EN 16931 compliance built in
  • B2G and B2B ready validation

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PDF services

Merge, split, watermark, encrypt and fill PDF forms through the same API you already use.

  • Fill and extract form fields
  • Text or image watermarks
  • Password protect documents
  • Compress without quality loss

Explore PDF services

Our customers know better

Don’t just take our word for it

We are extremely grateful that a number of local and global companies have chosen us as their service providers. Here is what they have to say about our service.

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★★★★★

The drag and drop builder is the main reason we switched. Our designer can now build and adjust templates directly, without touching the code.

Andreas Seierup

Andreas Seierup
Head of Development & Marketing · Firmagave

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★★★★★

It would be really hard without this for us to build the PDF documents our clients need. It has saved us hundreds, maybe thousands of hours.

Werner Stucky

Werner Stucky
CEO · Stubber

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★★★★★

Everything in this document is generated with PDF Generator. It works seamlessly with our CRM and automation system. That was essential for us.

Gert-Jan Bert

Gert-Jan Bert
Founder · Gandeno

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Deployment options

Prefer your own infrastructure over the cloud?

Run PDF Generator API where you need it. Pick dedicated deployment in a region close to your users, or install on-premises inside your own environment.

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Our cloud plans run under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. See our Terms of Service. Cloud pricing is on the pricing page.

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