About
Built out of necessity.
Kept simple by principle.
ParseApi is a developer tool that turns folders of documents into live REST APIs. It handles the extraction, schema, authentication, and hosting. You handle the documents.
Why ParseApi exists
Every company sits on a mountain of unstructured documents — invoices piling up in email, resumes in shared drives, contracts scattered across folder trees, medical records buried in PDFs. Extracting usable data from them means either paying for expensive enterprise software, stitching together fragile OCR pipelines, or doing it by hand.
ParseApi started from a simple frustration: building document extraction workflows kept requiring the same plumbing — file storage, API design, schema management, AI orchestration — just to answer "what's on this PDF?" The fifth time building that same pipeline, it became clear there had to be a better starting point.
The goal is to make document-to-API as effortless as pushing code to a repository. You create a folder, you drop in documents, and a structured JSON endpoint is live. No infrastructure to manage, no schema to hand-write, no deployment to worry about. The folder is the API.
Principles
Non-negotiables
Self-serve by default
No sales calls, demos, or "contact us" gates. Every feature is discoverable and usable without human intervention. You should be able to go from sign-up to live API in under five minutes — and you can.
Developer-first DX
Better error messages than competitors. Curl-friendly. Predictable pagination and consistent field naming. Problem Details for every error. If something breaks, you shouldn't need to read a forum post to understand why.
The folder is the unit
Not the schema, not the document. URLs, authentication, schemas, and usage quotas are all scoped to folders. This is the abstraction that makes ParseApi feel obvious once you've used it — and opaque before you have.
Trust through editability
AI extraction is good, not perfect. Every wrong value is one click away from being corrected. Corrections are tracked, auditable, and reflected in the API immediately. The raw extraction is always preserved so you can see what the model originally said.
The builder
ParseApi is built by Yonas Yeneneh, a software developer who spent years building document extraction pipelines for clients before deciding that the pipeline itself should be the product. Yonas built ParseApi as the tool he kept wishing existed every time someone asked "can you just pull the data out of these PDFs?"
The goal is to keep the tool small and focused. ParseApi does one thing — turns documents into structured JSON APIs — and it should do that thing exceptionally well before expanding scope. The roadmap is driven by what users actually run into, not hypothetical enterprise requirements.
Have feedback, found a bug, or want to talk about a high-volume use case? Use the contact form or email directly at expertsanoy@gmail.com. Messages are read and answered personally.
Yonas Yeneneh
Founder, ParseApi
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