# Connect Hex to PDF API Hub

When **New Project Run** fires in [Hex](https://apiant.ai/connections/hex), your agent runs **Add Watermark** in [PDF API Hub](https://apiant.ai/connections/pdf-api-hub). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Hex **4** triggers PDF API Hub **15** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Hex and PDF API Hub to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Hex can start in PDF API Hub

- When **New Project Run** in Hex then **Add Watermark** in PDF API Hub
- When **List Groups** in Hex then **Compress PDF** in PDF API Hub

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Hex and PDF API Hub

## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 15 actions

- Trigger

**List Groups**

Triggers when a group is found in your Hex workspace.

- Trigger

**List Projects**

Triggers when a project is found in your Hex workspace.

- Trigger

**List Users**

Triggers when a user is found in your Hex workspace.

- Trigger

**New Project Run**

Triggers when a new API-triggered run appears for a Hex project.

- Action

**Add Watermark**

Add text watermark to a PDF or image.

- Action

**Compress PDF**

Compress a PDF URL to reduce file size.

- Action

**Convert HTML to Image**

Generate an image from HTML and CSS.

- Action

**Convert PDF to JPG**

Convert PDF pages to JPG images.

- Action

**Convert PDF to WebP**

Convert PDF pages to WebP images.

- Action

**Convert URL to HTML**

Fetch rendered HTML content from a URL.

- Action

**Convert URL to Image**

Capture a website URL as an image.

- Action

**Extract Image Text (OCR)**

Extract text from an image.

- Action

**Extract PDF Text (OCR)**

Extract text from scanned PDF pages.

- Action

**List files**

Lists files uploaded with your API key, newest first (up to 500).

- Action

**Lock PDF**

Protect a PDF with a password.

- Action

**Parse PDF**

Extract text or structured data from a PDF URL.

- Action

**Sign PDF**

Add a signature to a PDF.

- Action

**Split PDF**

Split a PDF into pages, ranges, or chunks.

- Action

**Unlock PDF**

Remove password protection from a PDF.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Hex** Hex is a data science and analytics platform for building collaborative data projects and notebooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/hex)
- [ **PDF API Hub** PDF API Hub is a platform to support generate, merge, split, convert, read, OCR, and create PDFs from URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/pdf-api-hub)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Hex

- [ **Hex to Free Dictionary** Free Dictionary is an open English dictionary service.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hex-to-free-dictionary)
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- [ **Hex to PagerDuty Events API** PagerDuty Events API v2 — send alert events (trigger/acknowledge/resolve) and change events using a service...](https://apiant.ai/connect/hex-to-pagerduty-events-api)
- [ **Hex to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hex-to-hubspot)
- [ **Hex to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hex-to-salesforce)
- [ **Hex to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/hex-to-slack)

## More into PDF API Hub

- [ **HubSpot to PDF API Hub** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-pdf-api-hub)
- [ **Salesforce to PDF API Hub** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-pdf-api-hub)
- [ **Slack to PDF API Hub** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-pdf-api-hub)
- [ **Google Sheets to PDF API Hub** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-pdf-api-hub)
- [ **Gmail to PDF API Hub** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-pdf-api-hub)
- [ **Google Calendar to PDF API Hub** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-pdf-api-hub)

Questions

## Hex and PDF API Hub, answered

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### What can start an automation from Hex?

Any of Hex's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Project Run, List Groups, List Projects and List Users. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in PDF API Hub when something happens in Hex?

Any of PDF API Hub's 15 actions, including Add Watermark, Compress PDF, Convert HTML to Image and Convert PDF to JPG. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from PDF API Hub to Hex?

PDF API Hub has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Hex. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads PDF API Hub's API documentation and adds it.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Hex or PDF API Hub?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

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### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.