You can access the PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "pdfUrls": ["https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("kadro/pdf-text-extractor-api").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

PDF Text Extractor API: Bulk PDF URLs to Text, Per Page API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text API in JavaScript

PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text API through CLI

PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text OpenAPI definition

PDF Text Extractor API — Bulk PDF URLs to Text API

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PDF Text Extractor - Multi-Column Layout, OCR & Metadata

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[💵 $0.005 per PDF + $0.0004 per page · no start fee] Any PDF URL into clean, layout-aware text that reads multi-column pages in the right order. Whole document and page by page, plus metadata, bookmarks and links. Optional OCR reads scanned pages, billed only for the pages it reads.

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PDF Parser API

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PDF Text Extractor: PDF and Image to Text, with OCR

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Turn PDFs and images into clean text and Markdown for AI, RAG and search. Paste links (Google Drive and Dropbox too) or a page that links to PDFs. Get headings, pages, chunks, links, form fields and metadata. OCR for scans and images. $4 per 1,000 PDFs.

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PDF Text Extractor & Change Monitor

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Extract text, page content, metadata, and RAG-ready chunks from PDFs. Monitor content, page, and metadata changes across runs.

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PDF Text Extractor

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PDF Text Extractor allows you to extract text from PDF files. It also supports chunking of the text to prepare the data for usage with large language models.

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PDF Text Extractor: URL to Text

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Extract text from public PDFs for search and RAG preparation. Export one row per document or page as JSON/CSV; inspect extraction status and page limits. Text-layer PDFs only: no OCR or table reconstruction. Start with the one-PDF example in Example tasks.

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PDF to Text Extractor

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Extract the text of PDFs from URLs or uploaded files, page by page or as one document. $3 per 1,000 pages with text; scanned pages without text, failed downloads and broken PDFs are free. No OCR.