# Extract text from IRS tax forms

**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. Measured on 2026-09-07: Form W-9 returned 6 pages, the 2026 Form W-4 returned 5, and the 2025 Form 1040 returned 2. Each row carries the form title exactly as the PDF states it.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf",
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf"
  ],
  "urlsText": "",
  "pdfPassword": "",
  "pageRange": "",
  "maxPagesPerPdf": 0,
  "maxPdfs": 25,
  "maxPdfSizeMb": 50,
  "timeoutPerPdfSecs": 30,
  "includeFullText": true,
  "includePerPageText": false,
  "removeRepeatedLines": true,
  "minCharCount": 0,
  "keywords": [],
  "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

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