Okra Curl

OkraPDF HTTP API

Direct HTTP access to OkraPDF. OpenAI-compatible chat completions, REST endpoints for everything.

Auth

All authenticated endpoints require:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Base URL: https://api.okrapdf.com

Choose the right upload surface

• POST /v1/documents — upload and immediately start Okra processing (OCR, chat, exports, entities)
• POST /v1/files — store a PDF as a passive asset without binding it to a workflow

Use documents when you want the PDF parsed right away. Use files when you want Cloudinary-style storage first and will decide later what to do with the PDF.

Upload and process a document

From URL

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09288"}'

From file (multipart)

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@report.pdf" \
  -F "page_images=cover"

Upload options (form fields or JSON):

• page_images — none, cover (default), lazy
• processor — textlayer, llamaparse, unstructured, azure-di
• strategy — processing strategy override

Response:

{
  "document_id": "doc-abc123",
  "phase": "extracting",
  "pages_total": 42
}

Passive file assets

Store the original PDF without starting OCR or document lifecycle workflows.

Upload from file (multipart)

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@report.pdf;type=application/pdf"

Response:

{
  "id": "doc-file123",
  "object": "file",
  "name": "report.pdf",
  "mime": "application/pdf",
  "size": 1048576,
  "upload_mode": "multipart",
  "workflow_bound": false,
  "urls": {
    "bytes": "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files/doc-file123/bytes"
  }
}

List files

curl "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files?limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Download original PDF bytes

curl "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files/doc-file123/bytes" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -o report.pdf

Delete a stored file

curl -X DELETE "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files/doc-file123" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Large PDFs: direct-to-R2 upload

Use this when you want the browser or client to upload bytes straight to R2 instead of proxying the whole PDF through Okra's Worker.

FILE=report.pdf
SHA256=$(shasum -a 256 "$FILE" | awk '{print $1}')
FILE_SIZE=$(stat -f '%z' "$FILE")

PRESIGN=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files/presign \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"fileName\":\"report.pdf\",\"fileSize\":$FILE_SIZE,\"sha256\":\"$SHA256\"}")

FILE_ID=$(echo "$PRESIGN" | jq -r '.id')
UPLOAD_URL=$(echo "$PRESIGN" | jq -r '.upload_url')
CONTENT_TYPE=$(echo "$PRESIGN" | jq -r '.upload_headers["Content-Type"]')

curl -X PUT "$UPLOAD_URL" \
  -H "Content-Type: $CONTENT_TYPE" \
  --data-binary "@$FILE"

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/files/finalize \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"id\":\"$FILE_ID\",\"fileName\":\"report.pdf\",\"sha256\":\"$SHA256\"}"

Notes:

• Use exactly the returned upload_headers. Today that is just Content-Type.
• POST /v1/files/presign plus PUT plus POST /v1/files/finalize is the raw HTTP flow. The SDK hides this behind one files.upload() call.
• workflow_bound: false means the file is stored but not processed yet.

Check Status

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Response (key fields, abbreviated — full payload includes spec, capabilities, cache, etc.):

{"documentId":"doc-abc123","phase":"complete","pagesCompleted":42,"pagesTotal":42,"totalNodes":318,"verifiedNodes":318,"fileName":"report.pdf","pdfSha256":"..."}

Read Content

Full document (markdown)

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/full.md \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Specific pages

curl "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/pages/3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

All pages as JSON

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/pages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Chat Completions (OpenAI-compatible)

Ask a question about a document

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/document/doc-abc123/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What was total revenue in 2024?"}],
    "stream": false
  }'

Structured extraction (JSON schema)

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/document/doc-abc123/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Extract all line items from this invoice"}],
    "response_format": {
      "type": "json_schema",
      "json_schema": {
        "name": "invoice",
        "schema": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "line_items": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "description": {"type": "string"},
                  "amount": {"type": "number"}
                }
              }
            },
            "total": {"type": "number"}
          }
        },
        "strict": true
      }
    },
    "stream": false
  }'

Streaming

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/document/doc-abc123/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this document"}],
    "stream": true
  }'

Exports

# Markdown
curl https://api.okrapdf.com/exports/doc-abc123/markdown \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

# Excel
curl -o report.xlsx https://api.okrapdf.com/exports/doc-abc123/excel \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

# DOCX
curl -o report.docx https://api.okrapdf.com/exports/doc-abc123/docx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

# JSON snapshot
curl https://api.okrapdf.com/exports/doc-abc123/snapshot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Page Images

Deterministic URLs, CDN-cached:

# Page 1 image
curl -o page1.png https://res.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/pg_1.png

# With resize transform
curl -o thumb.png "https://res.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/w_400,h_300/pg_1.png"

Tables and Entities

# List tables
curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/entities/tables \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

# List all entities
curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents/doc-abc123/entities \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Collections

Group documents and query across all of them at once.

Create (with optional seed documents)

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Q4 Earnings",
    "description": "Quarterly earnings reports",
    "document_ids": ["doc-abc123", "doc-def456"]
  }'

Add documents

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"document_ids": ["doc-ghi789"]}'

Query across documents

Two query modes:

Fanout (default):

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/query \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "What was total revenue in Q4?"}'

Fanout NDJSON response events:

{"type":"start","query_id":"...","doc_count":7}
{"type":"result","doc_id":"doc-xxx","answer":"Apple reported revenue of..."}
{"type":"done","completed":7,"failed":0}

Sandbox mode:

curl -X POST https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/query \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "prompt": "Compare R&D spending across all companies. Show a table.",
    "mode": "sandbox"
  }'

Sandbox returns a single JSON response:

{
  "answer": "Based on the 10-K filings...",
  "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k2.5",
  "mode": "sandbox",
  "usage": {"inputTokens": 19364, "outputTokens": 1804, "costUsd": 0.005},
  "tool_calls": 5,
  "duration_ms": 78166
}

Get collection

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

List collections

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Remove documents

curl -X DELETE https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"document_ids": ["doc-abc123"]}'

Export collection

# NDJSON stream (default)
curl -N "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/export?format=markdown" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

# Zip archive
curl -L "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx/export?format=zip" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" -o collection.zip

Delete collection (preserves documents)

curl -X DELETE https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/collections/col-xxx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Fan-out pattern (scripting)

For maximum control, query individual documents in parallel:

for doc_id in doc-abc123 doc-def456 doc-ghi789; do
  curl -s -X POST "https://api.okrapdf.com/document/$doc_id/chat/completions" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What was total revenue?\"}], \"stream\": false}" &
done
wait

List Documents

curl "https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/documents?limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OKRA_API_KEY"

Pagination: ?limit=20&after=cursor_token

Available Vendors

curl https://api.okrapdf.com/v1/vendors

Returns list of available OCR processors with capabilities and pricing tier.

Error Handling