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PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages and Metadata from PDF Links

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Get the text of every PDF you link, page by page, with page count, language, word count and dates. Reads the text layer of PDFs, so it is fast and cheap; scanned pages without text cost nothing. No proxies, no login; robots.txt respected. You pay only for PDFs with readable text.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 documents

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Rowcraft

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You can access the PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages and Metadata from PDF Links programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

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HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "urls": [
9        "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
10        "https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf",
11        "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
12    ] }
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("rowcraft/pdf-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
19for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages and Metadata from Links API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages and Metadata from PDF Links API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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