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Fast PDF to Text & Markdown (no OCR)

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Extract clean text and Markdown from text-layer PDFs in seconds. No OCR, no heavy dependencies — fast and cheap. Built for feeding documents into LLM pipelines. Scanned/image-only PDFs are not supported.

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Input

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com/document.pdf"]
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
urls	array	yes	One or more PDF URLs to extract text from

Output (dataset)

Each item:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	The PDF URL that was fetched
pages	integer	Number of pages in the PDF
title	string	Document title from PDF metadata (may be null)
text	string	Raw extracted text
markdown	string	Text with `---` page separators, for LLM context
error	string	Present only when a URL could not be fetched/parsed

Example output

{
  "url": "https://example.com/document.pdf",
  "pages": 3,
  "title": "Quarterly Report",
  "text": "Page one content…",
  "markdown": "Page one content…\n\n---\n\nPage two content…"
}

Notes

No API keys, no OCR, no persistent storage — only a key-value store is unused here.
Fetches are done server-side with a plain Node fetch; no browser is launched.

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