Convert a PDF research paper to text for RAG

Created by

Catalin Friptu

Actor

PDF Text Extractor: PDF to Markdown, OCR & RAG Chunks

Turn any PDF into clean, page-by-page text ready for an LLM or RAG pipeline. This example extracts the 15-page "Attention Is All You Need" paper from arXiv, detects the language and returns one row with the full text. Scanned pages are read automatically with OCR. Swap in your own PDF links, Word files or images and run it.

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PDF Text Extractor: PDF to Markdown, OCR & RAG Chunksmalmurk/pdf-text-extractor

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+6 fields

Input

Document URLs

url:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762

Output:document

OCR:auto

Detect language:true

Output fields

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OCR used

Language

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Text

Error

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