Reusable subworkflow for Adobe PDF Services API operations including extract text, split PDF, and more.
A wrapper workflow for Adobe's PDF Services API that handles authentication, asset upload, processing, and result download. Supports multiple operations like PDF text extraction, splitting, and table extraction. Designed to be called as a subworkflow from other n8n workflows.
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"content": "# Adobe API Wrapper\n\nSee Adobe documentation:\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-services-api/howtos/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-extract-api/gettingstarted/\n\nIn short, this workflow does the following steps :\n\n- Authentication\n- Upload an asset (pdf) to adobe\n- Wait for the asset to be processed by Adobe\n- Download the result\n\n## Credential\n\nCredentials are not \"predefined\" and you'll have to create 2 custom credentials, detailed in the workflow.\n\n## Result\n\nThe result will depend on the transformation requested. It could be 1 of various files (json, zip...) accessible via download URL returned by the workflow.\n\nWorkflow can be tested with a PDF filed fetched with Dorpbox for example or any storage provider. "
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"content": "## Testing for development"
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"path": "/path/to/your/test.pdf",
"operation": "download",
"authentication": "oAuth2"
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"id": "YOUR_DROPBOX_CREDENTIAL_ID",
"name": "Dropbox account"
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"name": "Adobe API calls"
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"content": "## Wait for file do be processed"
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"content": "### 1- Credential for token request\n\nCreate a \"Custom Auth\" credential like this :\n\n```\n{\n \"headers\": {\n \"Content-Type\":\"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\"\n }, \n \"body\" : {\n \"client_id\": \"****\", \n \"client_secret\":\"****\"\n }\n}\n```"
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"content": "### 2- Credential for all other Queries\n\nCreate a \"Header Auth\" credential like this : \n\n```\nX-API-Key: **** (same value as client_id)\n```"
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"content": "## Workflow Input\n\n- endpoint: splitpdf, extractpdf, ...\n- json_payload : all endpoint payload except assetID which is handled in current workflow\n- **PDF Data as n8n Binary**\n\n\n### Example for **split** : \n\n```\n{\n \"endpoint\": \"splitpdf\",\n \"json_payload\": {\n \"splitoption\": \n { \"pageRanges\": [{\"start\": 1,\"end\": 2}]}\n }\n }\n}\n```\n\n### Example for **extractpdf**\n\n```\n{\n \"endpoint\": \"splitpdf\",\n \"json_payload\": {\n \"renditionsToExtract\": [\n \"tables\"\n ],\n \"elementsToExtract\": [\n \"text\",\n \"tables\"\n ]\n }\n}\n```"
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"method": "POST",
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"contentType": "form-urlencoded",
"authentication": "genericCredentialType",
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"genericAuthType": "httpCustomAuth"
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"httpCustomAuth": {
"id": "YOUR_ADOBE_CUSTOM_AUTH_CREDENTIAL_ID",
"name": "Adobe API"
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"url": "={{ $json.uploadUri }}",
"method": "PUT",
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"sendQuery": true,
"contentType": "binaryData",
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"inputDataFieldName": "data"
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"content": "## Template by Harshith Vaddiparthy\n\n\n**Learn to Build AI Automations**\nMaster n8n, AI agents, and no-code automation in my comprehensive course.\n→ harshith.com/vibecode\n\n\n**Content Automation Consulting**\nI help businesses automate video creation, social media, blogs, and newsletters.\n→ harshith.com/meet\n\n\n**Connect with me**\n→ linkedin.com/in/harshith-vaddiparthy",
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