Pricing

Pay per event

Try for free

Go to Apify Store

PDF Text Extractor: PDF URL to text for AI and RAG

Try for free

Turn public PDF URLs into clean text: full document text, optional per-page text, page count, word count and document info. Fast, no browser, low cost per PDF. Great for RAG, LLM pipelines, search indexing and document analysis.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Scott Williams

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

21 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Automation

PDF URLs

pdfUrls

Required

Direct links to public PDF files.

Type:array

Default:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf"
  }
]

Include per-page text

includePages

Optional

Add a pages array with the text of each page (useful for citations and chunking).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Max pages per PDF

maxPagesPerPdf

Optional

Read only the first N pages. 0 means all pages. The price is per PDF either way.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max characters of text

maxCharacters

Optional

Truncate the text field to this length. 0 means no limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max file size (MB)

maxFileSizeMb

Optional

Larger files are skipped with an error row.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:200

Default:50

Include failed URLs

includeFailedUrls

Optional

Add a row with the error for URLs that fail. Turn off to pay only for PDFs that were read.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

PDFs downloaded in parallel.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10

Default:5

Max results

maxResults

Optional

Cap per run. 0 means no cap.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

PDF to Text Extractor - PDF Parser & PDF to Markdown

gochujang/pdf-text-extractor

Extract text from PDF URLs or base64 files with this PDF extractor and PDF parser. Get per-page text, PDF to Markdown, or RAG chunks; optionally extract tables and OCR scanned pages.

Hojun Lee

279

PDF Text Extractor

automation-lab/pdf-text-extractor

Extract text, metadata, and page-by-page content from PDF files. Provide PDF URLs and get structured JSON with full text, per-page text, page count, author, title, creation date, and more. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel. No browser or proxy needed.

Automation Lab

622

Extract text from PDF

akash9078/pdf-text-extractor

Efficiently extract text content from PDF files, ideal for data processing, content analysis, and automation workflows. Supports various PDF structures and outputs clean, readable text.

Akash Kumar Naik

127

PDF Text Extractor

jirimoravcik/pdf-text-extractor

PDF Text Extractor allows you to extract text from PDF files. It also supports chunking of the text to prepare the data for usage with large language models.

Jiří Moravčík

1.1K

PDF Text Extractor — Text, Markdown, Tables and OCR

lergassy/pdf-text-extractor

[$0.003/PDF] Extract text from PDF files by URL, upload or base64: full text, per-page text, Markdown, tables and metadata. Scanned pages are read with OCR in 19 languages. Password PDFs, page ranges, RAG chunks. No fee per run.

Matvey

PDF Extractor 2.0

jupri/pdf-extractor-2-0

💫 Extract PDF Document Contents including Metadata, Images, Pages, Tables, Attachments, etc.

cat

173

PDF Text Extractor - Bulk PDF to Text & Metadata

santamaria-automations/pdf-extractor

Extract text and metadata from any PDF URL in bulk. Get page content, author, title, creation date, and more. Detects scanned PDFs that need OCR. Perfect for document analysis, research, and compliance.

NanoScrape

PDF to Text – Extract Text From PDF, Page by Page

rowfeed/pdf-page-text-extractor

Extract text from any PDF URL, one row per page. Pages with no extractable text (scanned PDFs) are never charged — the main differentiator. pypdf parsing, no OCR. Clean JSON for RAG pipelines, researchers and automation.

Rowfeed

PDF Text Extractor: URL to Text

datalantern/pdf-text-extractor

Extract text from public PDFs for search and RAG preparation. Export one row per document or page as JSON/CSV; inspect extraction status and page limits. Text-layer PDFs only: no OCR or table reconstruction. Start with the one-PDF example in Example tasks.

Data Lantern

Image to Text OCR API — Images & Scanned PDFs, 40+ Languages

saliga/image-to-text-ocr

Extract text from images, screenshots, photos of documents and scanned PDFs with OCR in 40+ languages. Plain text, Markdown, confidence, lines and words with boxes. PDF text layers read for less.