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Treat PDFs as data: orchestrate multi-step jobs with the Pipeline, inspect metadata, fonts, version, permissions and encryption status, export structured JSON/Markdown/HTML, render URLs to PDF and optimize output with linearization.

Best for: Developers, IT operations, data engineering

The usual order: parse or inspect the PDF, extract the structure you need, then convert, validate, or sanitize the output for the next system.

How to use

  1. 1Compose multi-step jobs into reusable workflows with the Pipeline
  2. 2Inspect metadata, fonts, version and encryption/permission state
  3. 3Export structured JSON/Markdown/HTML for downstream processing
  4. 4Render URLs to PDF, repair or linearize before delivery

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