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PDF to Markdown & Text Extractor: DOCX, PPTX, Excel + OCR

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Convert PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, HTML and image files to clean Markdown or text for LLMs and RAG: headings, tables, reading order, page markers and chunks. Scanned pages are OCR'd locally with Tesseract. Pay per page; blank and failed pages are free.

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PewterDesk

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Upload files

files

Optional

Upload your documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, CSV, HTML, TXT/MD, PNG/JPG/TIFF/WEBP). Only process files you own or have the right to use.

Type:array

File URLs

fileUrls

Optional

Direct links to your files. Google Drive / Docs, Dropbox and GitHub share links are converted to download links automatically (the file must be shared as 'anyone with the link').

Type:array

Output format

outputFormat

Optional

Markdown keeps structure that LLMs use well; plain text strips formatting.

Type:string

Default:markdown

Options:

markdowntextboth

Chunk size (characters, 0 = no chunking)

chunkSize

Optional

Split each document into RAG-ready chunks on paragraph/table boundaries, with page ranges. ~4 characters ≈ 1 token, so 2000 ≈ 500 tokens.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:100000

Default:0

Chunk overlap (characters)

chunkOverlap

Optional

Trailing paragraphs repeated at the start of the next chunk (at most half the chunk size).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:50000

Default:200

Dataset rows

outputMode

Optional

'One row per chunk' needs a chunk size above 0. Billing is the same either way.

Type:string

Default:document

Options:

documentchunks

Include per-page output

includePages

Optional

Adds a 'pages' array with Markdown, method (text/ocr) and OCR confidence for every page/slide/sheet.

Type:boolean

Default:false

OCR mode

ocrMode

Optional

Auto uses the PDF's text layer when it's good and falls back to local Tesseract OCR for scanned, image-only or broken-encoding pages. Images are always OCR'd.

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autoalwaysnever

OCR languages

ocrLanguages

Optional

Languages in your scanned documents. Picking only the ones you need is faster and more accurate.

Type:string[]

Default:

[
  "eng"
]

Detect tables

extractTables

Optional

Render ruled PDF tables as Markdown tables in reading position.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Page range (PDF)

pageRange

Optional

Optional, e.g. '1-5, 8, 20-'. Pages outside the range are skipped and not billed.

Type:string

Max pages per document

maxPagesPerDocument

Optional

Safety cap per file (0 = unlimited).

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:500

PDF password

pdfPassword

Optional

Only if your PDFs are password-protected.

Type:string

Include PowerPoint speaker notes

includeSpeakerNotes

Optional

Appends slide speaker notes as a quote under each slide.

Type:boolean

Default:true

HTML: main content only

htmlMainContentOnly

Optional

Drops navigation, footers, sidebars, scripts and forms from HTML files.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max file size (MB)

maxFileSizeMb

Optional

Larger files are skipped (not charged).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:500

Default:100

Files processed in parallel

maxConcurrency

Optional

Raise together with memory (each 1 GB ≈ one parallel OCR job).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:8

Default:2

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