Delete

Permanently deletes a document and all associated data that was created by the v2 parse, extract, or split endpoints. This includes the document record, the uploaded PDF file in storage, and the cached parse results.

POST https://pdf.ai/api/v2/delete

This endpoint only works for documents created via v2 parse, extract, or split endpoints.

Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.

Sample Code

Below are examples of how to use the delete endpoint with different programming languages.

curl -X POST https://pdf.ai/api/v2/delete \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"docId": "your-document-id"}'

import requests

url = "https://pdf.ai/api/v2/delete"
headers = {
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

data = {"docId": "your-document-id"}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
print(response.json())

const axios = require('axios');

axios.post('https://pdf.ai/api/v2/delete', 
  { docId: 'your-document-id' },
  {
    headers: {
      'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
  }
).then(response => {
  console.log(response.data);
});

<?php
$url = "https://pdf.ai/api/v2/delete";
$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$data = json_encode(["docId" => "your-document-id"]);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "X-API-Key: $apiKey",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;
?>

Please replace placeholders like <YOUR_API_Key> with actual values.

Headers

Name

Type

Description

X-API-Key*

string

<API-Key>

Request Format

Content-Type: application/json

Request Parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

docId

string

Yes

Document ID returned from Parse, Extract, or Split

Response format

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Document and all associated data deleted successfully"
}

Credit Usage

Free - no API credits are charged for delete operations.

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