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PDF to Text & Markdown - Extract Text from PDF URLs

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Extract text from PDFs by URL: whole document or page by page, with title, author and page count. Fast, no OCR needed for text PDFs. Obeys robots.txt. Pay only per PDF processed.

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Conor Wilson

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PDF to Text

Extract the text from PDFs by URL, either as one document or page by page, with title, author and page count. Built for RAG pipelines, search indexing, document review and data entry automation.

$2 per 1,000 PDFs. PDFs that fail to download, are blocked, are not really PDFs, or contain only scanned images are returned with the reason and never charged.

Why this one

Fast text-layer extraction with no OCR overhead for the large majority of PDFs, which are generated digitally.
Per-page output when you need to cite or chunk by page.
Clean text. Whitespace collapsed and page order kept.
Safe limits. Cap pages per PDF and file size so a giant document can't run up your bill.
Honest failures. Scanned-image PDFs are detected and reported as "no extractable text" instead of being billed for empty output.

Quick start

{
    "urls": [{ "url": "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf" }],
    "perPage": true,
    "maxPages": 0
}

Output

Field	Description
`text`	All extracted text
`pages`	Array of page texts, if `perPage` is on
`pageCount`, `pagesExtracted`, `wordCount`	Document size
`title`, `author`	PDF metadata when present
`fileSizeBytes`, `url`, `finalUrl`, `fetchedAt`	Download details
`ok`, `error`	Whether extraction succeeded, and why not

Input options

Option	Default	Notes
`urls`	required	PDF URLs
`perPage`	`false`	Also return per-page text
`maxPages`	`0`	Only the first N pages (0 = all, up to 2,000)
`maxFileMb`	`50`	Skip larger files, not charged
`maxConcurrency`	`3`	Parallel downloads

Limits and good use

Scanned PDFs (images of text) need OCR, which is not included. They are reported and not charged.
Password-protected PDFs cannot be read.
The actor fetches only what robots.txt allows for its user agent WilsDataTools, and never bypasses logins or bot protection.
You are responsible for having the right to process the documents you submit.

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Pay per event: one event per PDF successfully extracted, whatever its page count up to your maxPages cap.

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