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from $5.00 / 1,000 pdf processeds

PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata

Turn any PDF URL into clean data: full text, LLM-ready Markdown, per-page content, and metadata. Reads scanned PDFs via OCR (23 languages), supports page ranges, and processes files in parallel. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel. Ideal for RAG pipelines, invoices, and research.

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from $5.00 / 1,000 pdf processeds

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Muhamed Didovic

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You can access the PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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JavaScript

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HTTP

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "urls": [
12        "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
13    ]
14};
15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17const run = await client.actor("memo23/pdf-text-extractor").call(input);
18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
20console.log('Results from dataset');
21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
23items.forEach((item) => {
24    console.dir(item);
25});
26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PDF Text Extractor — PDF to Text, Markdown & OCR API API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

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