pdfservices-sdk limits

Document Transactions for the Operations below resulting in a Document will be counted with the following page limits:

• Extract Operation: 1 Document Transaction for up to 5 pages
• Accessibility Auto-Tag Operation: 10 Document Transactions per page
• Electronic Seal Operation: 10 Document Transactions per PDF
• All other Operations: 1 Document Transaction for up to 50 pages

Document Transaction Definitions

OPERATION	CAPABILITY	METRIC
Accessibility Auto-Tag	Tag the content in a PDF to improve accessibility	10 Document Transactions (per page)
Electronic Seal	Applies an organizational seal to a PDF using a digital certificate	10 Document Transactions (per PDF)
Document Generation	Create PDF and Word documents from your own authored Microsoft Word templates and JSON data	Document Transaction
Extract	Extracts PDF Elements such as text, images, tables in a structured format from a PDF.	Document Transaction (per 5 pages)
Create	Create PDF from static/dynamic HTML, HTML(with inline CSS), HTML(specified via URL), MS Office and other supported file types. File types: BMP, DOC, DOCX, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TIF, TIFF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, ZIP	Document Transaction
Export	Convert PDF to MS Office and other supported file types. File types: DOC, DOCX, JPEG, PNG, PPTX, RTF, XLSX	Document Transaction
Combine	Combine multiple PDFs or pages in PDFs to a single PDF	Document Transaction
OCR	Convert scanned PDF to editable and searchable PDF	Document Transaction
Compress	Reduce the size of a PDF	Document Transaction
Protect	Set user password in a PDF to prevent others from opening and viewing the Document	Document Transaction: the 50-page count does not apply
Remove Password	Remove password security from a PDF document. This can only be accomplished using the owner password of the document, which must be passed in the operation.	Document Transaction: the 50-page count does not apply
Linearize	Optimize a PDF for Fast Web View	Document Transaction
Split	Split a PDF document into multiple smaller PDFs	Document Transaction
Insert Pages	Insert one or more pages from different PDFs into a PDF	Document Transaction
Replace Pages	Replace one or more pages in a single PDF from pages in other PDFs	Document Transaction
Delete Pages	Delete one or more pages in a single PDF	Document Transaction
Rotate Pages	Rotate one or more pages in a single PDF	Document Transaction
Reorder Pages	Reorder one or more pages in a single PDF	Document Transaction
Get PDF Properties	Get XMP metadata properties of a PDF file	Document Transaction: the 50-page count does not apply

Usage Limits

There are several usage limits that apply to PDF Services API and its underlying Operations based on one initial endpoint request. Files submitted for processing that exceed usage limits below will fail and result in an error message.

USAGE LIMIT	VALUE
Document limit (combine, insert, replace, split)	20
File size (for all documents)	100MB
Output images per Document Transaction (Export)	50
Page limit (Extract and Accessibility Auto-Tag)*	400
Page limit (Scanned - Extract and Accessibility Auto-Tag)*	150
JSON file size (Document Generation and HTML to PDF)	10MB
Maximum Requests Per Minute	100 RPM** (Enterprise),25 RPM (Free Tier)
Payload size (For all APIs)	100MB

• Page limits may be lower for documents with a large number of tables.

• Please contact us on RPM if interested in understanding how it can scale under your ETLA.

ref:https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/limits/#licensing-metrics--free-trial