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Extract text from a research paper PDF
Created by
Joshua Smith
Turn research papers from arXiv or journals into clean text with per-page breakdown, document metadata and the links found in the paper. Feeds summarisation, citation extraction and search indexing.
Best Damn PDF Text Extractorjosh99smith/pdf-text-extractor
PDF URL
OK
Status
File name
+9 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
PDF URLs(required):https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762+1
Output format:text
Include per-page text:true
Output fields
PDF URL
OK
Status
File name
Pages
Pages extracted
Words
Characters
Has text layer
Size (bytes)
Metadata
Error type
Error
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