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PDF and Image to Clean Text for AI Agents

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Turn PDFs and images into clean text for AI agents and RAG. Scanned pages get OCR, and headers and page numbers are removed. Pay per page.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 page processeds

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Clean Text Tools

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What it does

Reads the text built into a PDF, and uses OCR on scanned pages and images.
Removes repeated headers, footers and page numbers.
Joins words split across lines and lines split by the page width, and keeps paragraphs.
Returns one result per file, with optional text per page.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
`files`	Public links to PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, WEBP or BMP files, up to 50 MB each	required
`ocrMode`	`auto`, `always` or `never`	`auto`
`languages`	OCR languages, such as `eng` or `eng+spa`. Included: eng, spa, fra, deu	`eng`
`maxPagesPerFile`	Stops at this page, which also caps the cost of a file	200
`includePages`	Adds the text and method for each page	false

Output

{
  "url": "https://example.com/report.pdf",
  "fileName": "report.pdf",
  "fileType": "pdf",
  "pageCount": 12,
  "totalPages": 12,
  "ocrPages": 3,
  "charCount": 18240,
  "text": "Clean text here..."
}

A file that fails returns url and error, and you aren't charged for it.

Pricing

You pay per page processed, plus a very small start fee per run. The prices are shown on this page. Set a spending limit on the run and it stops when the limit is reached.

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FAQ

Does it work on scanned documents? Yes, scanned pages go through OCR with Tesseract. Quality depends on the scan, and handwriting and complex tables often come out poorly.

Are tables kept? Table text comes through, but rows and columns aren't guaranteed to stay aligned.

Are my files stored? Files are deleted when each one finishes. The extracted text stays in the run's dataset under your account, under your retention settings.

Password-protected PDFs? They return an error and no charge.

Can I use private links? Signed links work. Internal network addresses are blocked.

How many pages can it handle? Up to 2,000 per file, with a 50 MB size limit.

Was this built with AI? Yes. It was built and is maintained with AI assistance. The text extraction itself uses standard open-source tools, pypdf and Tesseract, not an AI model.

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