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PDF Optimize Advanced

Advanced PDF optimization: remove metadata, clean structure, and recompress content

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/pdf-optimize-advanced' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/sourceFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-optimize-advanced' \
  -F 'sourceFile=/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf' \
  -F 'removeMetadata=true' \
  -F 'removeObjectStreams=false' \
  -F 'compress=true'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-optimize-advanced

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
sourceFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
removeMetadata	checkbox	No	Remove document metadata (author, title, keywords, creator, producer)
removeObjectStreams	checkbox	No	Remove object streams (may increase compatibility but file size may increase)
compress	checkbox	No	Compress content streams during optimization

File-type parameters must be uploaded first via POST /upload/pdf-optimize-advanced, then the returned filePath is passed to the corresponding file field.

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pdf-optimize-advanced": {
      "name": "pdf-optimize-advanced",
      "description": "Advanced PDF optimization: remove metadata, clean structure, and recompress content",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pdf-optimize-advanced",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pdf-optimize-advanced",
    "arguments": {
  "sourceFile": "/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf",
  "removeMetadata": true,
  "removeObjectStreams": false,
  "compress": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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