# Keep only PDFs that mention a word

**Use case:** 

One row per PDF: the text, the page count, the title, the author and the dates the file carries, plus a hash of the text so you can tell when it changes. The keywords are matched against the text, the title, the subject and the author. Nothing extra is downloaded to apply them: the filter runs on the text that was already extracted.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf",
    "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
  ],
  "urlsText": "",
  "pdfPassword": "",
  "pageRange": "",
  "maxPagesPerPdf": 0,
  "maxPdfs": 25,
  "maxPdfSizeMb": 50,
  "timeoutPerPdfSecs": 30,
  "includeFullText": true,
  "includePerPageText": false,
  "removeRepeatedLines": true,
  "minCharCount": 0,
  "keywords": [
    "taxpayer"
  ],
  "keywordMatch": "any",
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "monitoringMode": false,
  "resetMonitoringState": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "url",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "numPages": {
    "label": "numPages",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "pagesExtracted": {
    "label": "pagesExtracted",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "charCount": {
    "label": "charCount",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "wordCount",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "contentHash": {
    "label": "contentHash",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "previousContentHash": {
    "label": "previousContentHash",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "charCountDelta": {
    "label": "charCountDelta",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "author",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "createdAt": {
    "label": "createdAt",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "modifiedAt": {
    "label": "modifiedAt",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "source",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "finalUrl": {
    "label": "finalUrl",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "httpStatus": {
    "label": "httpStatus",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "sizeBytes": {
    "label": "sizeBytes",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "subject": {
    "label": "subject",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "keywords": {
    "label": "keywords",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "creator": {
    "label": "creator",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "producer": {
    "label": "producer",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "pdfVersion": {
    "label": "pdfVersion",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isEncrypted": {
    "label": "isEncrypted",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "pages": {
    "label": "pages",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "previousCharCount": {
    "label": "previousCharCount",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isFirstCheck": {
    "label": "isFirstCheck",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "scrapedAt": {
    "label": "scrapedAt",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "pdfKey": {
    "label": "pdfKey",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "reason": {
    "label": "reason",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [PDF Text Extractor - Watch PDFs and Get Only What Changed](https://apify.com/neverempty/pdf-text-extractor-monitor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/neverempty/pdf-text-extractor-monitor.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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