PDF Text Extractor — PDF to Text & Markdown API | $3/1k PDFs
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from $2.40 / 1,000 pdf processeds
Extract text and Markdown from PDF URLs in bulk, with document info (title, dates, page count, producer) and per-page text. Pure JavaScript, no OCR, no API key. Broken links, non-PDFs and scanned files are free rows. $3 per 1,000 PDFs.
All notable changes to PDF Text Extractor are recorded here. The newest release is first.
New, all optional; existing inputs give the same rows and the same price as before.
ragChunks): one row per token-sized chunk (chunkSizeTokens, default 500; chunkOverlapTokens, default 50) with pageStart, pageEnd, pageNumbers, the section heading, an estimated tokenCount and a stable chunkId. Billed as one result per started 50 chunks of a PDF, so a PDF of up to 50 chunks costs the same as before.fileUploads (files uploaded in Console, key-value store record URLs or storeId/key, read with the run's own token) and base64Files (base64 or data URLs, with an optional file name and password). Rows carry source.password (secret input, never logged or output); a wrong password is a free wrong_password row.extractTables): tables in the text layer as a tables array (rows of cells) and as Markdown tables in markdown and in RAG chunks. No OCR.First public release.
splitByPage.pageRange, maxPages, maxFileSizeMb and a per-PDF timeout; Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub and arXiv abstract links are turned into download links.status and, when something went wrong, errorType: a broken link, a web page instead of a PDF, a password-protected, damaged, oversized or scanned PDF is one free row and the rest of the batch still runs. Only ok rows are charged.