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PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata

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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.

Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 pdf processeds

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5.0

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Developer

Muhamed Didovic

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103

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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 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 = { "urls": ["https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("memo23/pdf-text-extractor").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

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