After struggling with Google's APIs and their authentication, this was really neat to see. If you create new credentials from the Getting Started page, you have the opportunity of downloading example code (in a few languages, including Node) that includes your authentication details in the zip itself. I can't tell you how many times I've signed up for a trial of something and then gotten too busy to use it!) One, very, very cool part of the API is how credential creation is handled. Please consider using a length of time like Adobe has done here.

(By that way, to all tech companies that do timed trials. However, you get a free trial of 1000 API calls over six months.

My specific use case was to take a PDF, convert it into images, grab the first page, and resize it into a thumbnail.īefore I get started sharing my solution, note that unlike the Embed API, Tooling is not free. The feature that interested me the most (and will be used in my next blog post) is the ability to convert a PDF into images.

Splitting, combining, re-ordering, PDFs as well as adding or removing pages.

Protecting, or removing protection, from a PDF.

Exporting PDFs to Office or image formats.

Creating PDFs from HTML and Office formats.

You should check the docs for a full set of features, but it allows for things like: Unlike the previous examples where I used client-side code to display PDFs in a browser, the Tools API are all HTTP based APIs built to let you work with PDF files. I've focused so far on the Embed API but today I want to share an example of the Tools API. Broadly speaking these fall under the umbrella of Adobe Document Services. As folks have noticed, I've been blogging lately about the tools Adobe has for working with PDFs.

Create thumbnail from pdf