AnnualReports.com Glossy Annual Report PDF Scraper

Scrape and parse glossy, designer-laid-out annual report PDFs from AnnualReports.com — a free aggregator covering NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTC, TSX, TSX-V, ASX, AIM, and LSE issuers, including internationally headquartered companies. Unlike SEC EDGAR (US-only, plain-text 10-Ks), AnnualReports.com hosts the marketing-piece annual report public companies send to shareholders — CEO letters, financial-highlights infographics, segment breakdowns, and (when disclosed) ESG detail.

What it does

The actor discovers companies via one of four modes, visits each company's profile page for identity and header data (ticker, exchange, sector, industry, headquarters, employee count), then downloads and parses each qualifying report PDF to extract structured fields: CEO/CFO/chairman names (from the letter-to-shareholders signature), financial highlights (revenue, net income, diluted EPS, dividend per share), reported business segments, fiscal year end, and page count.

PDF text extraction uses pdf-parse for born-digital PDFs (the vast majority of reports on this source), with OCR fallback for the rare scanned/legacy document.

Use cases

• Equity research — CEO/CFO changes, financial highlights, and segment mix across a ticker watchlist
• IR / comp benchmarking — pull headquarters, employee count, and financial highlights for peer-set analysis
• Global coverage for non-SEC issuers — companies headquartered outside the US (e.g. Ireland, UK, Australia) that don't file 10-Ks
• Finance LLM training data — designer-laid-out, magazine-style annual reports as a distinct document shape from plain-text filings

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
mode	string	Discovery mode: by_ticker, by_sector, by_country, recent	by_ticker
tickers	array	Stock ticker symbols to look up (mode=by_ticker)	["AAPL", "MSFT", "BRK.A"]
sectors	array	Sectors to crawl (mode=by_sector). One of: Basic Materials, Conglomerates, Consumer Goods, Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Non Profits, Real Estate, Services, Technology, Utilities	["Technology"]
countries	array	Headquarters countries to filter for (mode=by_country), matched against each company's parsed HQ location	["United States"]
yearFrom	integer	Earliest report year to include (inclusive)	2022
yearTo	integer	Latest report year to include (inclusive)	2025
includeFullText	boolean	Include the extracted letter-to-shareholders text (a few KB) in each record	false
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of report records to return	15

by_country routes through the site's exchange filters when the country maps to one (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia); other countries fall back to a maxItems-bounded scan since the source has no direct country filter.

Output

Each record represents one company's one report year:

Field	Description
ticker	Stock ticker symbol
company_name	Issuer legal/trading name
exchange	Primary listing exchange
sector	Business sector
industry	Business industry (finer-grained than sector)
country	Headquarters country
report_year	Fiscal/report year of this annual report
report_fiscal_year_end	Fiscal year end date as stated in the report (e.g. "December 31"), when found
pdf_url	Direct URL to the annual report PDF
pdf_page_count	Page count of the report PDF
cover_image_url	Report cover thumbnail (most recent report only) or company logo as fallback
report_type	Always "annual" for this source
ceo_name	CEO name, best-effort extracted from the letter-to-shareholders signature
cfo_name	CFO name, best-effort extracted from the letter-to-shareholders signature
chairman_name	Board chairman name, best-effort extracted (often the same person as CEO)
headquarters_address	Best-effort {city, region, country} — the source does not publish full street addresses
financial_highlights	Best-effort {revenue, net_income, eps_diluted, dividend_per_share, unit} parsed from the report's income statement
segments	Best-effort list of reported business segment names, when disclosed in a simple list form
employee_count	Employee count band from the company profile (e.g. 10000 for "10,000+ Employees")
full_letter_to_shareholders	Letter-to-shareholders excerpt (only populated when includeFullText: true)

Example

{
  "mode": "by_ticker",
  "tickers": ["ETN", "WCN", "HRL"],
  "yearFrom": 2023,
  "yearTo": 2025,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Returns up to 20 report records across Eaton, Waste Connections, and Hormel Foods for report years 2023–2025.

Notes

• Designer-laid-out, magazine-style reports have inconsistent text layout — financial-highlights infographics and multi-column pages don't always extract in reading order. ceo_name/cfo_name/chairman_name, financial_highlights, and segments are best-effort: populated when the source PDF exposes the underlying text in a recognisable shape, left empty otherwise. Measured fill rates on a 10-report sample across 4 companies: ceo_name 8/10, cfo_name 1/10 (most letters are CEO/Chairman-signed only, not CFO), segments 2/10 (most reports disclose segments in a financial-statement table rather than a simple list), full_letter_to_shareholders 5/10 when includeFullText: true (some report formats have no distinct letter section in the extracted text).
• Ticker symbols are not globally unique across exchanges (e.g. WCN matches both a NYSE waste-management company and an unrelated ASX mining company) — by_ticker mode keeps only the profile whose own displayed ticker exactly matches what you requested.
• Only the annual report PDF is in scope. Standalone sustainability/ESG reports and 10-K HTML filings, when the company publishes them separately from the annual report, are not included.