PDF Text Extractor - PDF to Text for AI, RAG & Search
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from $3.00 / 1,000 pdfs
Turn PDF files into clean text. Give it PDF URLs and get the full text, optional per-page text, page count, word count and document metadata (title, author, dates). Flags scanned PDFs that contain no text layer. Built for feeding documents to LLMs, RAG pipelines and search indexes.
You can access the PDF Text Extractor - PDF to Text for AI, RAG & Search programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, youβll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "urls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"] }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("optimistical_lectern/pdf-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"πΎ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# π Want to learn more π? Go to β https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text Extractor - PDF to Text for AI, RAG & Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: