Render a document as PDF
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
--form 'file=(binary)'import requests
url = "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview"
payload = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data"
}
response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '(binary)');
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
options.body = form;
fetch('https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview"
payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": null,
"code": 400,
"error": "unsupported_format",
"detail": "Unsupported document format.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unsupported_format"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 401,
"error": "unauthorized",
"detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided or are invalid.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unauthorized"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 413,
"error": "payload_too_large",
"detail": "File exceeds the 20 MB size limit.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#payload_too_large"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 422,
"error": "validation_error",
"detail": "Conversion failed — corrupt file or LibreOffice error.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#validation_error"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 429,
"error": "too_many_requests",
"detail": "Too many requests. Please try again later.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#too_many_requests"
}{
"detail": "System is under maintenance.",
"error": "service_maintenance",
"mode": "full_shutdown",
"reason": "<string>",
"started_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"endpoint_category_names": [
"<string>"
]
}Parse
Render a document as PDF
Convert a document into a PDF suitable for inline preview.
Accepts a file upload (multipart/form-data), a document URL, or a file_id referencing a document already ingested in the platform (JSON body). The conversion is synchronous — the PDF bytes are returned directly.
Supported file types: .pdf, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .pptx, .ppt, .odp, .docx, .odt, .doc, .html, .xhtml
Size limit: 20 MB.
POST
/
api
/
v3
/
preview
Render a document as PDF
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
--form 'file=(binary)'import requests
url = "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview"
payload = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data"
}
response = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '(binary)');
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
options.body = form;
fetch('https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview"
payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.lighton.ai/api/v3/preview")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"\r\n\r\n(binary)\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"id": null,
"code": 400,
"error": "unsupported_format",
"detail": "Unsupported document format.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unsupported_format"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 401,
"error": "unauthorized",
"detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided or are invalid.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unauthorized"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 413,
"error": "payload_too_large",
"detail": "File exceeds the 20 MB size limit.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#payload_too_large"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 422,
"error": "validation_error",
"detail": "Conversion failed — corrupt file or LibreOffice error.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#validation_error"
}{
"id": null,
"code": 429,
"error": "too_many_requests",
"detail": "Too many requests. Please try again later.",
"doc_url": "https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#too_many_requests"
}{
"detail": "System is under maintenance.",
"error": "service_maintenance",
"mode": "full_shutdown",
"reason": "<string>",
"started_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"endpoint_category_names": [
"<string>"
]
}Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Body
multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplication/json
The body is of type any.
Response
PDF rendered successfully. Response body is the raw PDF bytes.