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PDF to Text Extractor (Bulk PDF URLs)

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Extract text and metadata from PDF files by URL, in bulk: full text, optional per-page text, page count, title, author, dates, word count and a scanned-PDF flag. Great for RAG and document pipelines.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 pdf extracteds

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Proper Ecosystem Tools

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Features

Full text plus optional per-page text array
Metadata: title, author, subject, creator, producer, created and modified dates
Word and character counts, plus a likelyScanned flag for image-only PDFs that need OCR
Size and page caps, password-protection detection
Streams downloads; honors robots.txt

Input

Field	Description
`pdfUrls`	Direct links to PDF files, one per line.
`perPageText`	Also return an array with each page's text.
`maxPagesPerPdf`	Stop extracting after this many pages.
`maxFileSizeMb`	Skip larger files.
`concurrency`	Items processed in parallel.
`maxItems`	Stop after this many unique inputs.

Output (illustrative example)

{
 "url": "https://www.example.com/report.pdf",
 "title": "Example Report",
 "pageCount": 12,
 "wordCount": 3400,
 "likelyScanned": false,
 "text": "This is an example report..."
}

Pricing

Pay per event: pdf extracted. Rows that fail with an error are free. Set a maximum charge per run to cap spend.

Use cases

Index reports, papers, and manuals for RAG
Extract text from invoices or filings for parsing
Bulk document search and classification
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