---
title: "Deploy CodexPDF"
description: "PDF extraction engine — normalized facts: fonts, color, images, barcodes."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/codexpdf
---

# Deploy CodexPDF

PDF extraction engine — normalized facts: fonts, color, images, barcodes.

**[Deploy CodexPDF on Railway](https://railway.com/template/codexpdf)**

- **Creator:** Think Neverland
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### web

- **Source:** https://github.com/printwithsynergy/codex-pdf
- **Start command:** `/opt/venv/bin/uvicorn codex_pdf.api.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port ${PORT:-8080}`
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host CodexPDF on Railway

CodexPDF turns every PDF into normalized facts — fonts, color, images, dielines, barcodes — over one API. The dependable extraction source of truth for print & prepress automation, built from the public [printwithsynergy/codex-pdf](https://github.com/printwithsynergy/codex-pdf) repo.

## About Hosting CodexPDF

This template deploys a single stateless `codex-pdf` HTTP service. Railway builds
it straight from the public repository and exposes the REST API; no database
or object store is required. Health rides at `GET /healthz`, the published
endpoint surface at `GET /v1/contract`. Scale vertically for large documents
or horizontally behind your own gateway.

## Why Deploy CodexPDF?

Run it on infrastructure you control: keep customer PDFs inside your network,
pin the engine version your shop validated, and avoid per-document SaaS fees.
If you'd rather have it managed (auth, quotas, billing, the full Synergy
toolkit), use the hosted platform at https://host.withsynergy.io.

## Common Use Cases

- Normalize incoming customer PDFs into structured facts for your MIS/workflow
- Drive automated routing decisions off fonts / color / barcode inventory
- Feed downstream preflight, imposition and review tools with one extraction pass

## Dependencies for CodexPDF Hosting

None — the service is fully self-contained.

### Deployment Dependencies

- Source & docs: https://github.com/printwithsynergy/codex-pdf
- The wider open-source prepress toolkit: https://work.withsynergy.io


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