How to Save Web Traffic for Users Viewing your Documents using WebP

In this tutorial, we will show you how you can save storage and web traffic using the WebP image file format. The WebP is an image file format smaller than JPEG with comparable quality. To follow along, you can download the sample file.

Contents

01
Create Scenario
    02
    Add WebP Endpoint
      03
      Add Source File
        04
        Disable Async Mode
          05
          Run Scenario
            06
            Output Files

              Step 1: Create Scenario

              To get started, let’s create a Scenario and choose the PDF.co Make an API Call module.

              Add PDF.co Make An API Call Module

              Step 2: Add WebP Endpoint

              In the API Endpoint Path field, enter the /v1/pdf/convert/to/webp endpoint. You can learn more about the endpoint at the API Documentation.

              Add PDF.co PDF To WebP Endpoint

              Step 3: Add Source File

              In the Input Type field, let’s select the Override URL param with the value option. This will allow us to manually enter the sample file link. Then, enter the file link in the Url field. Here is the link to the sample file.

              Add PDF Source File

              Step 4: Disable Async Mode

              In the Forcely enable async mode field, choose the No, rely on the async param in the Body option. Our sample file is only 329 KB which can be processed instantaneously.

              Disable Async Mode

              Step 5: Run Scenario

              Now, let’s Run the Scenario.

              Run Scenario

              Step 6: Output Files

              Great! We converted the PDF to WebP files successfully. The 2-page 329KB PDF file has been reduced to 2 separate WebP files with 62KB and 69KB sizes.

              PDF To WebP Output
              PDF to WebP Output

              In this tutorial, you learned how to save web traffic for users viewing your documents using WebP. You also learned how to use the PDF.co Make an API Call module to convert a PDF document to WebP.