You can access the PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs 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("metaparse/pdf-to-markdown").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 to Markdown for RAG and LLMs API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs API in JavaScript

PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs API through CLI

PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs OpenAPI definition

PDF to Markdown for RAG and LLMs API

PDF to Markdown RAG-Ready

hedelka/pdf-to-markdown-rag

Premium PDF scraper that preserves tables and structure. Optimized for RAG.

Dmitry Goncharov

PDF to Markdown Converter - AI-Powered with OCR & Tables

clearpath/pdf-to-markdown-api

Convert PDFs to clean Markdown with GPU-accelerated AI. Extracts tables, LaTeX formulas, and images from complex layouts. Supports OCR for scanned docs in 8 languages. Batch process hundreds of PDFs in parallel via URL, upload, or API.

ClearPath

PDF to Text API | Document Extraction for LLMs & RAG

andok/pdf-text-converter

Convert bulk PDF documents via URL into clean, raw text. The perfect document scraper for LLMs, vector databases, and RAG pipelines.

Andok

PDF to Markdown Converter

web.harvester/pdf-to-markdown-converter

Convert PDFs to clean Markdown with optional OCR for scanned documents. Uses PDF.js for text extraction and Tesseract.js for optical character recognition.

Web Harvester

Markdown to PDF MCP Server

parseforge/markdown-to-pdf-mcp

Convert Markdown text or files to PDF documents via an MCP server. Supports custom styling, page sizes, and headers. No external dependencies.

ParseForge

5.0

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PDF to Markdown for RAG & LLMs — Tables

vivid_astronaut/pdf-to-markdown-for-rag

Convert PDFs into structured Markdown for RAG and LLM ingestion while preserving tables, headings, and reading order. No external parsing API key; tiered per-page pricing.

BRAINIALL Team

Website to Markdown for LLM & RAG — Crawl4AI URL to Clean

bikram07/web-to-markdown-crawl4ai

Convert any URL, sitemap, or whole website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG, vector databases, and AI agents. Hosted Crawl4AI in a real Chromium browser — renders JavaScript and SPAs, strips boilerplate, and exports JSON/CSV. Callable over MCP from Claude and Cursor.

Bikram

PDF Text Extractor & Markdown for LLM RAG: OCR, Tables, Chunks

pankovs/pdf-to-llm-markdown

Convert PDF to clean Markdown for LLM & RAG pipelines: text extractor with OCR fallback (50 languages), GitHub-flavored table reconstruction (incl. tables spanning pages), right-to-left script support, and optional RAG chunking. ~$0.008 for a 20-page text PDF. Pay only for pages with real text.

Pankovs

Web Page to Clean Markdown for RAG & LLM — 77% Fewer Tokens

craftbox/fast-markdown-for-rag

Convert web pages into clean Markdown for LLM and RAG pipelines, using 77% fewer tokens than a raw crawl while keeping every content section. Works in any language.

Craftbox

PDF Text & Table Extractor – Pages, Markdown, RAG

glidepath/pdf-text-extractor

PDF to text, Markdown and tables, page by page. Input: PDF URLs (+ page ranges). Output: per-page text, Markdown with tables, table cells, RAG chunks and document metadata. No OCR. $1.50/1k pages; image-only pages free.