Skavio Processing API

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Skavio remote MCP server — invoice OCR and extraction, PDF text extraction, document automation, image and media processing, transcription and meeting workflows for AI agents. Discover it in the official MCP Registry, or connect a compatible MCP client to https://www.skavio.eu/processing/mcp using your company-issued Bearer MCP credential.

• MCP setup and all available tools
• MCP pricing and prepaid USDC credits
• Official MCP server manifest
• x402 paid USDC verification micro-APIs · machine-readable x402 discovery

The Processing MCP uses company-scoped prepaid credits; the separate x402 micro-APIs advertise payment-required responses. Neither requires exposing private keys to Skavio.

One company-scoped API for document extraction, PDF and image tools, media processing, transcription and meetings.

• Product and pricing
• Live developer documentation
• Company workspace: register and create an API key
• OpenAPI v1 · Developer guide
• Python quickstart · Node.js quickstart · Bulk guide
• Postman public documentation · Collection
• DEV.to integration article
• Webhook verification

API route version: /v1. Contract snapshot: 1.9.0 + Pricing V2, captured 2026-10-04.

What is new in API 1.7.0

• Monthly charged/reserved usage and separate payment history, bounded CSV and key attribution.
• Atomic company/key budgets for API, batch, bulk and paid web admission.
• Expiring API keys with granular permissions and administrator-only policy writes.
• Queue visibility, persisted alerts, cancellation of unstarted standalone jobs and governance audit.
• Idempotent replay of failed job/batch/bulk webhook deliveries using the frozen original event.
• Structured errors and X-Request-Id correlation; Czech/German/English dashboard additions.

Read the Usage, budgets and recovery guide for authorization, UTC month rules, limits and compatibility.

Storage Fabric introduced in API 1.6.0

• Private S3 sources/results and compatible legacy local files.
• Verified direct uploads and resumable imports from approved customer cloud URLs.
• Company-scoped retention, archive, deletion hold and opt-in separate-bucket backups.
• Manual verified backup/restore, signed result downloads and encrypted import credentials.
• Existing Pricing V2, jobs, batches and bulk contracts remain supported.

Read the Storage Fabric guide for endpoints, production limits and browser upload handling.

Bulk features introduced in API 1.5.0

• Bulk manifests up to 100,000 items with immutable manifest pages of 1–100 items and bounded incremental child admission.
• Storage-aware admission through GET /v1/storage, declared input/output/scratch envelopes and durable storage reservations.
• Resume and failed-item retry for large workloads without resubmitting successful items.
• Crash/restart recovery for scheduler state, reservations, checkpoints and provider-intent reconciliation.
• Fair scheduling across companies while preserving the current ceiling of 4 active platform jobs globally.
• Existing 100-item batches remain available for simpler workloads.

Start with Bulk processing guide or the Python bulk quickstart. This repository contains the public developer kit. The hosted processing service requires a Skavio account and credits.

First result

1. Register, create a company profile and generate a read/write key in the company workspace. Copy it once and keep it server-side.
2. Upload a source using multipart field files.
3. Call POST /v1/estimate without starting processing.
4. Set max_credits to the returned estimated_credits.
5. Submit POST /v1/jobs with a stable Idempotency-Key.
6. Poll the returned job ID until completed or failed; download through the authenticated result paths.

The included invoice is synthetic, contains no customer data, and can be used for an extraction test.

Python 3.10+

python -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Set SKAVIO_API_KEY securely in your local environment.
export SKAVIO_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY="your-persisted-invoice-request-001"
python quickstart.py

Node.js 22+

# Set SKAVIO_API_KEY securely in your local environment.
export SKAVIO_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY="your-persisted-invoice-request-002"
node quickstart.mjs

Both examples use sample-invoice.txt; set SKAVIO_SOURCE to a PDF/image/text source to change it. They estimate cost before submission and write JSON output into results/. For intentional processing of a different source or changed payload, use a new idempotency key. These examples are server-side starters. For the official Python and JavaScript SDK clients, see sdk/README.md; durable workflow pipelines are documented in workflow-guide.md.

Postman

Import the collection or fork its public workspace copy. Set your own local/private environment variable api_key; never save a real key in the public collection. Set source_file to a local source. Run Upload → Estimate → Submit → Job status → Download. Poll every 3–10 seconds until the job is terminal before downloading. Requests cover the API-key processing endpoints; administration, key creation, billing and webhook registration use an interactive company administrator session in the dashboard. Before a new business request, clear upload_id, job_id, download_path, max_credits and idempotency_key in your private environment. Preserve the idempotency key when retrying the same submission.

What can I process?

Capabilities snapshot lists exact operation names. Query GET /v1/capabilities for current prices and limits. Normal file jobs accept one source; PDF merge accepts 2–20 PDFs; Flow can process multiple document sources. Transcribe and Meeting accept one media source. Batch processing supports up to 100 items. API 1.5.0 bulk manifests support up to 100,000 items with incremental dispatch; see bulk-guide.md. Standalone jobs do not support arbitrary operation chaining. Durable linear process/review/archive pipelines are available; see workflow guide.

Credits and price control

All web tools and API share a prepaid company wallet. No unlimited processing entitlement is advertised in this kit. The server measures bytes, pages and media duration. It reserves the quoted amount on submission, charges that fixed quote on success, and releases the reservation on failure. Use max_credits to reject unexpectedly expensive submissions and GET /v1/wallet to track balance and reservations.

Nominally 1 EUR = 1,000 credits. Top-ups: EUR10/10,000; EUR25/26,000; EUR50/53,000; EUR100/108,000; EUR250/280,000; EUR500/570,000. A retail EUR6.99/6,990 pack is also available.

Monthly plans: Starter EUR29/30,000 credits; Business EUR79/85,000; Pro EUR199/225,000; Enterprise EUR499/600,000. Paid credits never expire; monthly credits roll over. Current plans share the deployment processing limits.

Web tools and API share one wallet. Submit reserves the measured quote; success charges it once; a permanent failure releases it. Temporary provider outages keep jobs queued with durable checkpoints and reserved credits. Existing quoted jobs and purchased checkout/subscription offers retain their original amounts.

Canonical live catalog: GET /v1/pricing. Always estimate before submission and use max_credits rather than hard-coding a rate.

Reliability and integration rules

• queued → processing → completed | failed; submission returns HTTP 202.
• Replaying the identical job request with the same idempotency key returns the same job. Changing its payload returns 409.
• Persist business request, exact payload, key and job ID in your system. If a response is lost, retry with the original key.
• A failed job releases credits; an intentional new attempt uses a new key.
• Provider outages and service restarts preserve durable jobs/checkpoints and reservations; permanent failures release them.
• Webhooks deliver at least once; verify HMAC on the raw bytes and deduplicate event IDs. Polling remains supported.
• Results/source retention defaults to 7 days. Storage Fabric policy, archive and hold control object retention; inspect retain_until and preserve results before expiry.
• Extraction can be wrong. Check evidence and review flags; review line items against the source before downstream accounting.

Limits (current deployment)

120 requests/minute per key/session; up to 100 files/500 MB per upload; 2 GB source storage/company; 100 pages/PDF; 100 queued jobs/company; 4 active platform jobs/company and 4 globally. Transcribe/Meeting input can be up to 10 hours; File Toolbox media up to 2 hours. These are ceilings, not guaranteed throughput or an SLA. Back off on 429 and transient 5xx responses. Current plans share the processing limits.

Errors

JSON errors retain detail and add error_code, request_id and retryable; X-Request-Id provides correlation. Use stable codes rather than matching error text. Validation does not echo secret inputs.

Security and support

Use Authorization: Bearer <your-key> over HTTPS. Never expose keys in frontend apps, URLs, screenshots, commits or shared Postman environments. Company-scoped object IDs cannot access another company. Create/revoke keys and register webhooks in the dashboard. PDF passwords are secrets; do not log payloads. Review Privacy and Terms before regulated/sensitive inputs. Source processing can involve external providers; backup/provider retention is separate from platform deletion.

Report integration issues through this repository with synthetic reproductions only, or contact work@skavio.eu privately. Never attach customer documents, keys or billing data to a public issue.

Versioning

Compatible additions remain under /v1; clients should ignore unknown response fields. Breaking changes require a major API version or an announced migration. Changelog.

License

Example code and documentation in this developer kit are MIT licensed. This does not license the hosted backend or grant free use of the hosted service; service use follows its Terms and credit pricing.

Batch processing — API 1.5.0

Submit up to 100 items for any advertised operation through the same processing pipeline. A batch uses one operation/options set and creates ordinary child jobs. Processing remains 4 active jobs per company and 4 globally; a batch does not promise 100 parallel executions.

1. Upload files with POST /v1/uploads; retain their upload IDs.
2. Quote POST /v1/batches/estimate using {"operation":"jpg","upload_ids":["UPLOAD_A","UPLOAD_B"]}.
3. Submit the same payload to POST /v1/batches with max_credits set to the total quote and a persisted Idempotency-Key (8–128 allowed characters).
4. Poll GET /v1/batches/{batch_id}. Each items[].job includes status, credits and result download paths. progress ranges from 0 to 1; terminal states are completed, partial, failed.
5. Download GET /v1/batches/{batch_id}/results.zip after completion. The archive includes successful results and manifest.json. Missing/expired files return 410. ZIP output is limited to 1 GB; use individual authenticated downloads for larger results.
6. Use POST /v1/batches/{batch_id}/retry-failed with a new persisted key to create a separately billed batch of failed items. Retry requests are bound to the original batch. Download successes before retention expires.

Credits reserve atomically for the complete batch. Every child has separate accounting; successful items are charged and failed items release their reservation. Replaying the same submission does not reserve credits again. Changing a request while reusing its key returns 409. Batch items count toward the 100 queued jobs per company.

Use either upload_ids (one child per source) or items (explicit groups), never both. PDF merge requires groups with 2–20 PDFs each:

{"operation":"pdf-merge","items":[{"upload_ids":["PDF_A","PDF_B"]},{"upload_ids":["PDF_C","PDF_D"]}],"webhook_mode":"both"}

Grouped Flow inputs use the same items shape. Optional webhook_id must belong to your company. webhook_mode accepts batch (parent events), items (child events), or both. Parent events are batch.completed, batch.partial, batch.failed; verify the same signature and deduplicate event IDs. Parent delivery IDs are distinct from child delivery IDs.

GET /v1/batches lists recent company batches. DELETE /v1/batches/{batch_id} deletes terminal result/source specifications while preserving accounting. Source/result retention is seven days. A repeated-failure guard may return 429; contact support rather than continuously resubmitting failing sources. Save exact payloads, keys and returned IDs in durable storage.

Batch starters: Python · Node.js · Batch guide. Set SKAVIO_API_KEY, SKAVIO_UPLOAD_IDS (JSON array from upload), and a persisted SKAVIO_BATCH_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY. The examples poll and print authenticated result paths; archive results before retention expires.

Durable workflow pipelines

Linear process/review/archive steps, checkpointed execution and per-step credit settlement. See workflow guide.

Official SDK clients

Python and Node.js clients are in sdk/README.md. Install from this repository with python3 -m pip install ./sdk/python or npm install ./sdk/javascript. They cover all 92 current OpenAPI operations, durable submission keys, resumable polling, signed webhook verification and authenticated result downloads. Packages are published: pip install skavio-sdk==1.1.0 and npm install @skavio-llc/sdk@1.1.0.

API 1.9.0 controls and notifications

Bulk pause and cancel require Idempotency-Key and enforce company isolation. Pause prevents new child admission; accepted jobs drain and settle once. Cancel is final and prevents further dispatch. GET /v1/notifications and GET /v1/notifications/settings are tenant-scoped. PUT /v1/notifications/settings requires a company administrator web session. Notifications are disabled by default; email requires configured transport. Frozen events are deduplicated and retried within a bounded delivery window. Email follows the current company billing address and supports cs/de/en.