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from $5.00 / 1,000 pdf extracteds

PDF Text Extractor — Text & Metadata from URLs

Extract clean text and metadata from any PDF by URL: full text, page count, title, author, dates as JSON. Perfect for AI pipelines, RAG ingestion, document search and content analysis. No API key needed.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 pdf extracteds

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Oaida Adrian

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How it works

Give it a list of PDF URLs. For each file the Actor downloads it (up to 100 MB), parses it with a battle-tested PDF engine, and outputs one dataset item with the full extracted text and all document metadata.

Handles multi-hundred-page documents
Extracts PDFs encrypted with an empty password (common for "secured" PDFs)
Skips and logs unreadable or password-protected files instead of failing the run
Optional includePageTexts mode outputs the text of every page separately — ideal for chunking in RAG pipelines

Input

{
  "pdfUrls": [
    "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762",
    "https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerPdf": 0,
  "includePageTexts": false
}

Field	Type	Description
`pdfUrls`	array	Direct URLs of PDF files (required)
`maxPagesPerPdf`	integer	Max pages to extract per PDF; `0` = all pages
`includePageTexts`	boolean	Also output per-page text array for chunking

Output

One item per PDF:

{
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762",
  "fileName": "1706.03762",
  "fileSizeBytes": 2215244,
  "numPages": 15,
  "pagesExtracted": 15,
  "text": "Attention Is All You Need ...",
  "textLength": 39432,
  "wordCount": 6120,
  "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
  "author": null,
  "creator": "LaTeX with hyperref",
  "producer": "pdfTeX-1.40.25",
  "creationDate": "D:20240410010203Z",
  "modDate": null,
  "encrypted": false,
  "pageTexts": null
}

Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged a small fee per PDF extracted, plus Apify's standard compute. Extracting 1,000 PDFs costs about $5 in event fees.

FAQ

Does it OCR scanned PDFs? No — it extracts the text layer. Scanned image-only PDFs will return empty text (the item still includes metadata and page counts).

Password-protected PDFs? PDFs encrypted with an empty password are extracted automatically; user-password-protected files are skipped with a warning.

File size limits? 100 MB per file.

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