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For watching published price lists, tariffs, timetables and terms, and for feeding RAG pipelines: PDF links in, text out, one row per PDF with page count, title, author and dates. The IRS W-9 gave 21,855 characters on 2026-09-07. Watch the same URLs and a PDF returns only when its text changed.

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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://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
13        "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
14    ]
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("neverempty/pdf-text-extractor-monitor").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PDF Text Extractor - Watch PDFs, Get Only What Changed API in JavaScript

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