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PDF Text Extractor — Extract Text from PDF Links

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Extract text from PDF links, or from every PDF a page links to. One row per PDF: full text, page and word counts, optional per-page text, title, subject, dates and producer. Scanned or locked PDFs are skipped, not billed. Part of NexGen Signal — data tools and official-source data products

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