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PDF Text Extractor — Text, Pages & Metadata from Any PDF Link

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The text of any PDF at a public link — whole or page by page — with page count, word count and metadata. Scanned PDFs without text are flagged and not charged.

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$3.00 / 1,000 pdf delivereds

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What you get

For every PDF:

Field	What it is
`url`, `finalUrl`	the link, and where it ended up after redirects
`text`	the full text
`pages`	with Text page by page on: the text of each page
`pageCount`, `pagesRead`, `characters`, `words`, `fileBytes`	size
`title`, `subject`, `keywords`	from the document's properties, when set
`creator`, `producer`, `pdfVersion`, `language`	how it was made
`createdAt`, `modifiedAt`	dates from the document's properties
`textTruncated`	when Max text length cut the text
`scrapedAt`, `status`, `error`	when it was read, and why a link gave nothing

Example

A real record from a live run, 24 September 2026 (text shortened):

{
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762",
  "pageCount": 15,
  "characters": 39619,
  "words": 6120,
  "creator": "LaTeX with hyperref",
  "producer": "pdfTeX-1.40.25",
  "createdAt": "2024-04-10T21:11:43Z",
  "text": "Provided proper attribution is provided, Google hereby grants permission to\nreproduce the tables and figures in this paper solely for use in journalistic or\nsch…",
  "status": "OK"
}

How to use it

Add PDF links, one per line.
Optionally limit Max pages per PDF, switch on Text page by page, or cap the text with Max text length.
Press Start, and download the results from the Output tab as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Feed the text to an AI model, a search index or a spreadsheet — or call it from the Apify API, Make, Zapier or n8n, or from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

You are charged per PDF delivered — see the price on this page. Scanned PDFs without text, links that are not PDFs, missing files and files over 100 MB are free.

FAQ

Does it read scanned PDFs? No — it reads the text layer. Scanned pages have none and are reported as NO_TEXT, free.

Are tables kept? Their text is, in reading order; the table layout is not.

Can it read password-protected PDFs? No.

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