We prepared this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots to teach you how to convert a ZIP file into a PDF using PDF.co and Zapier. This is to convert all the files inside your ZIP into one PDF file.
Quick Navigation:
- Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard
- We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event.
- As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder.
- Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier
- Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the zip files are located.
- We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.
- Search and select PDF.co as our App event
- Select PDF Merger as our Action event.
- Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier.
- Under Set up Action set the List Of Links To Source PDFs, Documents, or Images to Web Content Link, change the value of Auto-convert Non-PDF Files to true, and set the Name for the output PDF.
- Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.
- Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF.
Step by step guide:
We will use this sample document and images inside our ZIP file to be converted into PDF.

STEP 1 – Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard
STEP 2 – We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event.
STEP 3 – As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder. In this case, whenever there’s a new file added to your specific folder, it will trigger this zap.
NOTE: If you are not a Google Drive user, you can use a different cloud storage service such as Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., and look for a similar Trigger Event.
STEP 4 – Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier
STEP 5 – Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the zip files are located. In my case, I put the zip file in the Merge Zip Tutorial folder.
STEP 6 – We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.
So we’re done setting up the Trigger. We will now set up the Action.
STEP 7 – Search and select PDF.co as our App event
STEP 8 – Select PDF Merger as our Action event. PDF Merger can merge multiple documents into one new single PDF.
STEP 9 – Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier. You can get your API key by clicking here.
STEP 10 – Under Set up Action set the List Of Links To Source PDFs, Documents or Images to Web Content Link, change the value of Auto-convert Non-PDF Files to true, and set the Name for the output PDF. Once done click on continue.
STEP 11 – We will now Test the action. Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.
STEP 12 – Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF. Don’t forget to give a name to your zap and turn it on.
Just follow those steps to convert a ZIP file into a PDF using PDF.co and Zapier. Here’s the output file for this tutorial.
