Overview

doclabs is a cloud service hosting RESTful APIs that allow you to create, modify and convert PDFs & documents adhering to the Office Open XML specification.

This includes most Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Apache OpenOffice products etc.

Getting Started

Getting started is easy and free if you stay inside the free calls per month boundary. Simply create an account and generate your authorization keys. Take a look at our documentation here or Swagger API docs and get going!

Notes on API usage

Quota

Each call to an API will count as 1 call added to your quota.

Depending on the actions taken against a document, a modification of a template including download will be 2 calls in total. Uploading a pdf, splitting at pages, merging 2 of those pages back together and finally downloading the result will be 4 calls in total.

Document immutability

All documents are immutable - meaning, they can't be modified. Every action taken will always copy the document first, and then modify the new content. Further changes to the copied document will then again copy that document before making changes.

This will allow you to build and store your templates without worry of overwriting your template content.