Scalable and Reliable PDF Conversion

Document conversion for your pipeline. Choose from programmatic conversion and orchestrator workflows. Reliable, accurate, and ready to handle high volumes of files.

Developer tooling that fits your pipeline

Conversion Service

Convert 50+ file types to PDF, PDF/A, and TIFF

A full suite of workflows for document conversion at scale

  • Built for high-volume document processing

  • Ingest documents from watched folders, email, and API

  • Extensive logging and monitoring

The Conversion Service adds a full suite of configurable conversion workflows to your document pipeline

Convert 50+ file types to PDF, PDF/A, and TIFF
PDF SDK

Programmatic file conversion

Integrate document conversion into your backend systems, desktop apps, and server-side automation

  • Convert image to PDF and vice versa

  • Programmatic control over conversion parameters

  • Support for mixed raster content (MRC)

The PDF SDK offers a full feature set for PDF manipulation

Programmatic file conversion
Conversion Service

Linux-native office conversion

Convert Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to PDF natively on Linux

  • Standard Linux converter; optional connection to Microsoft Office

  • No Microsoft licensing and costly Windows server necessary

  • Data sovereignty: avoid exposure to CLOUD Act

Convert Office files to PDF with the Conversion Service

Linux-native office conversion
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Convert to PDF/A to prepare documents for archiving

PDF/A is the archival standard

PDF/A is the archival standard

Reliably convert important documents to PDF/A, the archival standard that regulators and auditors expect.

PDF/A preserves layout

PDF/A preserves layout

PDF/A preserves formatting, fonts, raster and vector graphics in a PDF by embedding all the necessary elements into the file.

Supports PDF/A standards

Supports PDF/A standards

Pdftools supports conversion to PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, and PDF/A-3 standards, including all conformance levels (B, A, and U).

Learn more about PDF/A Conversion with Pdftools

Conversion highlights

Image to PDF

Image to PDF

Control compression, quality, resolution, page size, layout, etc.

PDF to Image

PDF to image

Control DPI, compression, color management, and page layout

Convert to XML

Convert to XML

Extract structured XML from documents, images, and Office files

Convert to TIFF

Convert to TIFF

Convert to TIFF for image archiving

Apply OCR

Apply OCR

Apply OCR when converting to PDF (add-on license)

Support for Mixed Raster Content

Support for Mixed Raster Content

Improve compression and quality with MRC

Convert to XML to prepare data for AI

The Conversion Service converts 50+ file types to XML, turning unstructured documents into structured data. Use cases include extracting details for claims processing, preparing data for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), or training sets for LLMs.

Convert to XML to prepare data for AI

Build document conversion into your pipeline

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What customers are saying

Government

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Swiss Life archives documents from Microsoft SharePoint in PDF/A format with the Conversion Service

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