Question about feasibility of merging PDF files without using paid service or self-hosting

Hey everybody.
I'm fresh to n8n and currently struggling to find a solution of merging PDF files without paid service and community nodes or libraries installations. I don't want to self-host the workflow, but can't find a free of charge service. Could you please help?
Please do consider the fact I'm a newbie and might not understand things someone else finds self-explanatory :)
  • n8n version: Version 1.107.4
  • Operating system: win 10

hey @Klavs_Ansons welcome to n8n community,

here is one way of merging pdf with help of g-suite,

hope it helps

Hello, @Klavs_Ansons

Use this “@custom-jscustom-js**/n8n-nodes-pdf-toolkit**“ community node that is free, but you can use 20 creadits/day. That’s enough for your learning perpose.

Go to settings→click on community nodes→install this node

If this idea is useful for you, please marked as solution.

I wonder what is the “Extract from File“ node used for?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Custom-JS only for self-hosted applications?
Because there is no button “Community nodes“ under my settings tab…

well g-suite does not provide inbuilt pdf editing option so,
that is a workaround for extracting data from pdf and then merging content and then downloading as pdf.

Oh I got it. So do I get it right - it extracts content and combines with other document instead of actually appending pages from one file to another..?

yes it takes data from both pdfs and add them into docs any sequence you want and then export that docs as pdf.

Okay, thank you very much for you help and responsiveness :slight_smile:

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