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PDF Text Extractor & Document to Markdown (Word, Excel, PPT)

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Extract text from PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML and EPUB files as clean Markdown for AI. PDF to Markdown, DOCX to text, OCR for scanned PDFs and images in 32 languages, plus free chunking for RAG and vector databases. Never charges for a failed or empty result.

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from $2.50 / 1,000 document converteds

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Developer

Pavel Tashev

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url

Required

The file URL you provided, before any redirects.

Type:string

fileName

Required

File name from the server's Content-Disposition header, or from the URL path. "document" when neither gives a name.

Type:string

fileType

Optional

Detected file type: pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx, html, epub, csv, json, xml, txt, md, png, jpg, tiff, webp or bmp. Null when the file failed before detection.

Type:string | null

Options:

pdfdocxpptxxlsxhtmlepubcsvjsonxmltxtmdpngjpgtiffwebpbmpnull

fileSizeBytes

Optional

Size of the downloaded file in bytes. Null for failed files.

Type:integer | null

title

Optional

Document title from the file's metadata, or its first heading. Null when neither exists.

Type:string | null

markdown

Optional

The converted document as Markdown. Null when the file failed or when "Include Markdown in output" is off.

Type:string | null

wordCount

Optional

Number of words in the converted Markdown. Null for failed files.

Type:integer | null

characterCount

Optional

Number of characters in the converted Markdown. Null for failed files.

Type:integer | null

likelyScanned

Optional

True when the PDF has pages with no text layer, meaning it is a scan that needs OCR. Null for failed files.

Type:boolean | null

ocrPages

Optional

Number of pages read with OCR and charged as ocr-page events. 0 when OCR was not needed or is off.

Type:integer | null

ocrLanguages

Optional

Tesseract language codes used for OCR on this file, for example ["eng","deu"]. Null when no OCR ran.

Type:string[] | null

ocrTruncated

Optional

True when OCR stopped early because the per-file page limit or the run's maximum cost was reached, so some pages are missing from the text.

Type:boolean | null

chunkCount

Optional

Number of chunks produced for this document. Present only when chunking is on.

Type:integer | null

chunks

Optional

The document split into retrieval-sized chunks. Present only when chunking is on and "Where to put the chunks" is "In the document".

Type:object[] | null

itemType

Optional

Which kind of row this is when "One item per chunk" is selected: "document" or "chunk". Absent in every other mode.

Type:string | null

Options:

documentchunknull

chunkId

Optional

Chunk rows only: stable 16-character id of the chunk.

Type:string | null

index

Optional

Chunk rows only: position of the chunk in its document, starting at 0.

Type:integer | null

text

Optional

Chunk rows only: the chunk's Markdown text, including any overlap.

Type:string | null

charCount

Optional

Chunk rows only: length of the chunk text in characters.

Type:integer | null

approxTokens

Optional

Chunk rows only: rough token estimate (characters ÷ 4, rounded up).

Type:integer | null

headingPath

Optional

Chunk rows only: Markdown headings above the chunk, outermost first.

Type:string[] | null

startChar

Optional

Chunk rows only: offset in the document's Markdown where the chunk body starts.

Type:integer | null

endChar

Optional

Chunk rows only: offset in the document's Markdown where the chunk body ends.

Type:integer | null

sourceUrl

Optional

Chunk rows only: URL of the document the chunk came from.

Type:string | null

documentTitle

Optional

Chunk rows only: title of the document the chunk came from.

Type:string | null

status

Required

ok | empty | failed | skipped. Result quality: ok = a real result (the only case that is charged), empty = worked but nothing to report, failed = could not be done, truncated/partial = cut short by a limit, skipped = not attempted. Anything other than ok is never charged.

Type:string

error

Optional

Plain-language reason the file failed, for example an HTTP status or an unsupported format. Null on success.

Type:string | null

failureKind

Optional

Why this row has no data: "refused" when the target said no, could not be reached or has nothing to read, "limit" when a limit you set stopped us first, "invalid" when the entry could not be used, "error" when something went wrong on our side. Empty on rows that carry data.

Type:string | null

Options:

refusedlimiterrorinvalidnull

processedAt

Required

When the file was processed, as an ISO 8601 UTC timestamp.

Type:string

pageCount

Optional

How many pages the PDF has in total.

Type:integer | null

pagesRead

Optional

How many pages were actually read, after any page range you set.

Type:integer | null

pages

Optional

Per-page text when "Include per-page text" is on: page number, text, word and character counts. The page number is the real one in the document, so a citation stays correct even when only a range was read.

Type:array | null

tables

Optional

Tables found when "Extract tables" is on: page, rowCount, columnCount, the rows themselves, and a Markdown rendering. Reliable on ruled tables; borderless layouts often yield nothing usable and are dropped rather than returned as noise.

Type:array | null

tableCount

Optional

How many usable tables were found.

Type:integer | null

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