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PDF to Text, Markdown & Tables (CSV)

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Extract text, Markdown and tables as CSV from PDF URLs, with optional RAG chunks that keep page numbers. $1 per 1,000 PDFs plus $0.20 per 1,000 pages.

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PDF URLs

pdfUrls

Optional

Direct links to PDF files, one per line. For your own files, use the key-value store field below instead.

Type:array

Key-value store with your PDFs

keyValueStoreId

Optional

Pick a key-value store from your account. Every record whose key ends in .pdf or whose content type is application/pdf is processed, in addition to the URLs above. Only this store is shared with the Actor.

Type:string

Text per page

outputText

Optional

Plain text of the whole file and of each page.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Markdown

outputMarkdown

Optional

Markdown with headings guessed from font size, paragraphs and tables as Markdown tables.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Tables (CSV and JSON)

outputTables

Optional

Tables found on each page. Each table is saved as a CSV file in the key-value store, with its URL and its rows (JSON) in the dataset.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Chunks for RAG

outputChunks

Optional

Split the text into overlapping chunks, each with the first and last page it comes from.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Chunk size (tokens)

chunkSize

Optional

Approximate size of each chunk. Tokens are counted as characters divided by 4.

Type:integer

Minimum:50

Maximum:8000

Default:500

Chunk overlap (tokens)

chunkOverlap

Optional

Approximate overlap between consecutive chunks. Capped at half the chunk size.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:2000

Default:50

Max pages per PDF

maxPagesPerPdf

Optional

Only the first N pages of each PDF are processed and charged. 0 means all pages.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:5000

Default:0

Password

password

Optional

Password for encrypted PDFs. The same password is tried on every file. Stored encrypted.

Type:string

Max file size (MB)

maxFileSizeMb

Optional

Bigger files are skipped with an error and not charged.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:50

Download timeout (seconds)

downloadTimeoutSecs

Optional

Maximum time to download one file.

Type:integer

Minimum:5

Maximum:600

Default:120

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