# Changelog of PDF Text Extractor — PDF to Text & Markdown API | $3/1k PDFs (`glasswing/pdf-text-extractor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glasswing/pdf-text-extractor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/glasswing/pdf-text-extractor.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to PDF Text Extractor are recorded here. The newest release is first.

### 1.1.0 - 2026-10-19

New, all optional; existing inputs give the same rows and the same price as before.

- **RAG chunks** (`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.
- **Files without a URL**: `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-protected PDFs**: `password` (secret input, never logged or output); a wrong password is a free `wrong_password` row.
- **Text tables** (`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.

### 1.0.0 - 2026-10-16

First public release.

- Text and Markdown from PDF URLs in bulk: one row per PDF, or one row per page with `splitByPage`.
- Markdown rebuilds headings from font sizes, bullet and numbered lists and wrapped paragraphs, and drops page numbers and running headers and footers (one to three lines repeated at the top or bottom of the pages).
- Document info from the PDF itself: title, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation and modification dates, PDF version, language, form fields, encryption. The author field is never returned (it usually holds a person's name).
- `pageRange`, `maxPages`, `maxFileSizeMb` and a per-PDF timeout; Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub and arXiv abstract links are turned into download links.
- Every row carries `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.
- Pure JavaScript (Mozilla pdf.js), no OCR, no third-party API key.