Adobe announces new document services APIs

Adobe has announced exciting new APIs – Adobe PDF Extract API and Adobe Document Generation API – to quickly unlock all the intelligence inside the PDFs and programmatically generate documents with dynamic data.

Adobe has been putting nearly three decades of PDF expertise and leadership to work by building and growing Adobe Document Services, the cloud-based APIs and SDKs designed for developers to seamlessly build new and innovative document solutions.

There have been countless PDFs created over the last several decades, with an estimated 2.5 trillion PDFs created every year.

Last year, Adobe introduced Liquid Mode, which uses Adobe Sensei, the AI and machine learning platform, to understand the structure of PDF. The new Adobe PDF Extract API builds on Liquid Mode. It’s a cloud API that analyzes the structure from both scanned and native PDFs and extracts all elements of a PDF including text, table data, and images, with an understanding of relative positioning and reading order across columns and page breaks.

Organizations can use PDF Extract API to quickly and accurately extract data for use in machine learning models, analysis, indexing or storage; to automate downstream processes using technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP); as well as republish PDF content across different media.

With the availability of Adobe Document Generation API, developers can quickly design custom Microsoft Word templates, as well as generate Word and PDF documents injected with dynamic data. The Document Generation API includes an out-of-the-box integration with Adobe Sign, so that documents are ready for e-signatures.

The Document Generation API is also available with the Adobe PDF Services connector in Microsoft Power Automate, enabling Power Platform users to easily automate the preparation of their documents for invoices, agreements, and more. These users can also access 15 new, ready-to-use templates for document workflows in Power Automate.

The company’s vision for Adobe Document Services is to give developers and IT organizations a platform of choice and flexibility across a broad selection of APIs. As part of that mission, Adobe continues to make sure that the APIs are available wherever developers find and manage cloud software and services for their businesses.

To that end, Adobe PDF Services API is now available in the AWS Marketplace, a global online marketplace for software and services, enabling a frictionless experience from evaluation to purchase.