Automate Documents
Generate business documents with APIs: QR codes and barcodes in bulk, PDF invoices with correct tax lines, and PDF reports with charts that are built, stored and emailed automatically.
Automate Documents badgeComplete all 4 lessons to earn it. About 3 hours.
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What you'll be able to do
- Choose between QR, Code 128 and Code 39, generate codes in bulk and verify them by reading them back
- Issue sequentially numbered PDF invoices with tax lines you can reconcile to the cent
- Render chart images that survive email clients and PDF conversion
- Build a data-to-PDF report pipeline that retries safely, resumes after failure and accounts for every credit
This course is one of three skill areas on exam APV-230, APIVerve Certified Developer: Document Automation: 10 of its 30 questions. See the full path
Syllabus
- Generate QR codes and barcodes in bulkStart hereChoose QR, Code 128 or Code 39, encode URLs and vCards correctly, generate thousands of codes in a batch, and verify each one by reading it back with an API.
- Generate PDF invoices with an APIGenerate PDF invoices with an API in Node.js and Python, with gap-free numbering, sales tax or VAT lookups, cent-exact totals and permanent storage.
- Create chart images for emails and PDF reportsGenerate bar, line and pie chart images with an API, validate the data first, and embed charts that survive email clients and HTML-to-PDF conversion.
- Build an automated PDF report pipelineBuild a report pipeline in Node.js that turns data into a chart, an HTML table and a PDF, stores it, emails a signed link, retries safely and counts credits.