Compare the Top Small Business PDF APIs as of October 2025

What are Small Business PDF APIs?

PDF APIs are software interfaces that enable developers to integrate PDF-related functionality into their applications or websites. These APIs allow for the creation, manipulation, conversion, and extraction of content from PDF files without requiring users to manually open or edit the files. Common features of PDF APIs include merging, splitting, editing text, adding annotations, and extracting text and images. They can also handle PDF conversions, such as converting PDFs to other formats like Word, Excel, or HTML, and vice versa. By using PDF APIs, businesses can automate document workflows, enhance document management systems, and integrate PDF capabilities into custom applications seamlessly. Compare and read user reviews of the best Small Business PDF APIs currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    jPDFOptimizer

    jPDFOptimizer

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFOptimizer is a Java library to optimize and reduce the size of PDF documents. jPDFOptimizer can remove unnecessary objects in PDF documents, detect and merge duplicate images and fonts, and modify image resolution, compression and color spaces to reduce size. The library provides a powerful, yet simple API to let the calling application fine tune how to optimize documents. jPDFOptimizer is built on Qoppa Software’s extensive PDF technology and requires no third party software or drivers. The library is 100% Java and can run on any operating system for which there is a standard Java implementation, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and others. Features: -Modify image resolution, compression and color spaces -Compress images using JPEG, JPEG 2000 and JBIG2 -Compress data streams -Remove unused objects -Remove and merge duplicate images and fonts -Flexible optimization options -Linearize PDFs for fast web view -Support for latest PDF format -Support for JDK 1.6+
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