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PDF.co

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles PDF.co the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — PDF.co scores 61.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 61.1/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.1 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile PDF.co

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for PDF.co. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

PDF.co Barcodes API

The Barcodes API from PDF.co — 2 operation(s) for barcodes.

PDF.co Document, File & System API

The Document, File & System API from PDF.co — 17 operation(s) for document, file & system.

PDF.co Editing API

The Editing API from PDF.co — 4 operation(s) for editing.

PDF.co Excel Conversion API

The Excel Conversion API from PDF.co — 6 operation(s) for excel conversion.

PDF.co Extraction API

The Extraction API from PDF.co — 5 operation(s) for extraction.

PDF.co Find & Search API

The Find & Search API from PDF.co — 4 operation(s) for find & search.

PDF.co Forms API

The Forms API from PDF.co — 1 operation(s) for forms.

PDF.co Pages API

The Pages API from PDF.co — 3 operation(s) for pages.

PDF.co PDF Conversion API

The PDF Conversion API from PDF.co — 21 operation(s) for pdf conversion.

PDF.co PDF Merging & Splitting API

The PDF Merging & Splitting API from PDF.co — 4 operation(s) for pdf merging & splitting.

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

PDF.co API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pdf Co Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pdf Co Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Pdf Co Context

0 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

PDF.co API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

PDF.co AI Invoice Parser Request

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PDF.co Document Parser Request

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PDF.co Job Status

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Pdf Co Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pdf Co Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Pdf Co Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pdf Co Agentic Access

68 operations · 61 acting

68 operations · 61 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for PDF.co — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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