PDF.co vs. 0CodeKit: PDF Features for Document Management

Since its first publishing in 2008, PDFs have become one of the most used text file formats in the world. Research has shown that PDFs have been widely adopted by 82% of businesses over the last few years. According to its creator and original proprietary, Adobe, more than 16 billion PDF documents have been edited. However, Adobe is not the only platform where you can edit PDFs – not anymore at least. Many tools and platforms have emerged to change how we interact with PDFs.  

For example, PDF.co is a platform that focuses solely on document editing and automation, especially PDFs. On the other hand, 0CodeKit is a general-purpose API toolbox that also offers some PDF functionalities. In this blog, we intend to highlight some of these PDF features of PDF.co and 0CodeKit.

AI and Automation

PDF.co can be integrated with automation platforms like Make, Zapier, and other 3,000 applications. Moreover, they've used AI with some of their endpoints for improving document processing. For instance, they have the AI Invoice Parser which extracts data structurally from invoices. Also, the Document Classifier uses AI to sort input documents and PDF Inspector that helps users understand the content and structure of PDFs.

In contrast, 0CodeKit can be integrated with other automation platforms, such as Make, Zapier, n8n, Monday, Workato, and Integrately. Furthermore, 0CodeKit has so far one PDF endpoint that makes use of AI – the PDF OCR easily extracts text from PDFs. Importantly, a second PDF and AI endpoint is on its way which can read, understand, and extract key information from any document.

File Conversion

PDF.co has several format conversion features that are able to convert several document formats like excel, HTML, images, or URLs into PDF documents. But it also has some features that can do it the other way round – it can convert PDF documents into XLS, TIFF, TXT, JSON, HTML, JPG, CSV, or PNG formats.

Conversely, 0CodeKit's conversion tools are a bit more limited. Users can convert a markdown string and docx documents into PDFs, or they can also convert PDF documents into images.

Document Handling

For the alteration of documents, PDF.co and 0CodeKit offer a wide range of endpoints with many different functionalities. They both share features like split PDF, merge PDF, compress PDF, remove pages, rotate pages, insert text and images, and many more.

On the one hand, PDF.co has some other amazing features. There's a 'Find Text' and 'Find Table' features that let users skim through PDF documents and find a specific piece of text or table. 'Replace Text', 'Add Watermark', 'Fill PDF Form', and 'Make PDF Searchable' are some other endpoints that are offered in the platform.

On the other hand, 0CodeKit has also some pretty good features for PDFs. For example, users can 'Get Info Metadata' and 'Edit Metadata' from PDFs. At 0CodeKit, you can also encrypt and decrypt PDF documents for better security. There's also a feature that lets you create an empty PDF file, where users can add text and images as they wish – link a blank canvas.

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Long Story Short

Both PDF.co and 0CodeKit have great PDF functionalities that can help users to manage, edit, protect, and do many more things with their documents. The difference between these two tools is that PDF.co focuses solely on the manipulation of many document formats, not only PDFs. Whereas 0CodeKit's functionalities are not aimed only at PDFs, therefore, their functionalities are few compared to PDF.co