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Convert a research paper PDF to Markdown for RAG

Turn a PDF (here the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper on arXiv) into clean Markdown with headings and lists rebuilt, ready to chunk for an LLM or RAG pipeline.

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PDF Text Extractor — PDF to Text & Markdown API | $3/1k PDFs
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Title
Pages
Page
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Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

PDF URLs:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762
Output format:markdown
Include document info:true
Maximum rows:10

Output fields

File
Title
Pages
Page
Characters
Needs OCR
URL
Status
Error type
Error
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