Transloadit Blog

Invoices are a core workflow for finance teams, but extracting fields by hand is slow and error prone. In this Let’s Build, we’ll assemble a small invoice parsing service using Transloadit’s primitives: route files, normalize formats, and ask AI for structured JSON.

Business card scanners are a great example of productizing file workflows. You capture an image, clean it up, then extract contact details into structured fields. Transloadit’s primitives let you assemble that pipeline in a few steps.

Background removal is one of the most popular file-processing workflows for e-commerce, marketing, and design teams. With Transloadit, the core pipeline is just a single step.

The document intelligence market is booming. Companies like Reducto.ai are gaining traction by helping enterprises extract structured data from PDFs and scanned documents. Their value proposition is compelling: upload a document, define a schema, get clean JSON back.

We're migrating our temporary file storage from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2. This change brings significant cost savings through free egress, but has a small impact on custom temporary file purging settings for a very limited set of use cases.

Earlier this month, we finished a major infrastructure project: expanding Transloadit into a hybrid platform that combines Hetzner Cloud, Hetzner Bare Metal, and AWS. The goal is simple: keep much larger fleets online at all times, so we can respond to demand spikes without waiting for fresh capacity to boot.

Today, we're releasing version 4 of our Node.js SDK, the biggest rethink of the package since its initial launch. You can now rely on comprehensive TypeScript coverage, full Robot definitions with autocomplete, structured error handling, and modern tooling — all while respecting the fifteen-year journey of an API that has grown alongside the Node ecosystem.

On September 3, 2025 (US‑East), we experienced elevated queue times and, in periods, stalled job processing due to Redis connection exhaustion. The issue was stabilized the same day through a hotpatch and configuration changes. This post explains what happened, how we mitigated it, and what we are doing to prevent a recurrence.

We added a new Turbo mode for our 🤖 /document/thumbs Robot. It emits page thumbnails as soon as they are ready instead of batching them at the end, so downstream Steps can start work earlier. This can reduce end-to-end time for multi‑page PDFs by up to ten times, depending on your workflow.

You can now have granular control over the duration for which Transloadit keeps your Assembly Status JSON and transcoding results.