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Automate & Scale: Set triggers within Monkedo to automatically generate documents whenever a specific event occurs in your workflow.
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Our advanced editor allows you to easily create new PDFs by dragging and dropping the elements into your PDF templates.
You can create PDF documents easily such as invoices, reports, delivery notes that reflect your brand.
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An expression is essentially a javascript syntax enclosed in {{ and }}. The expression is any valid set of variables, operators, and expressions that evaluates to a single value. The value may be a number, a string, an array or a logical value.
You may also use any of the standard built-in objects such as Math, String, Array or methods in the expressions.
Advanced Formatting with Expressions
Our template editor supports advanced formatting. You can easily format number, currency and date time with CraftMyPDF’s expressions.
The following is an example to format a currency field:
{{ format(data.total_amount, "number", "$0,0.0000") }}
curl -X POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header 'X-API-KEY: 7832MjA6MTE6UjlkM3h4emxpTExzeFR0aQ=' \
--data '{"template_id": "05f77b2b18ad809a", "export_type":"json", "expiration": 10, "output_file":"my_new.pdf", "data": "{ \"invoice_number\": \"INV38379\", \"date\": \"2021-09-30\", \"currency\": \"USD\", \"total_amount\": 82542.56 }", "output_file": "output.pdf"}' \
"https://api.craftmypdf.com/v1/create"
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TL;DR: The best eSignature APIs do more than capture a

DocRaptor, PDF Noodle, and CraftMyPDF all turn data into documents, but they are built for very different workflows, from pure conversion to full automation. We will judge each one on rendering quality, pricing model, AI and template features, integrations, compliance, and how well it scales.

Learn how to add e-signature fields to PDFs and automate your signing workflow with CraftMyPDF. This guide shows you how to import a PDF, place signature fields, assign signers, and generate signable documents using simple JSON data and API automation.

PDF Generator API, PDFMonkey, and CraftMyPDF all help you generate PDFs, but they are built for different workflows. This comparison looks at their features, pricing, template editors, integrations, and compliance options so you can choose the best PDF generation API for your product or automation.
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