PDF & Image to Text API: OCR, Markdown, Tables, RAG Chunks
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from $1.05 / 1,000 document processeds
Extract text from PDFs, scanned PDFs, images (PNG, JPG, TIFF) and DOCX by URL: full text, Markdown, per-page text, OCR confidence, tables, metadata, RAG chunks. Auto-OCR in 20 languages. $1.50/1K docs, $4/1K OCR pages.
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