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PDF Text Extractor - PDF to Text & Markdown for LLM/RAG

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Extract text from PDF files by URL, or from all PDFs linked on a web page. Get full text, Markdown per page, title, dates, page count, table of contents and RAG chunks with page numbers. Detects scanned pages. Fast, no browser. Export JSON/CSV or call via API/MCP.

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from $1.65 / 1,000 pdf extracteds

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Teddy Wasserman

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You can access the PDF Text Extractor - PDF to Text & Markdown for LLM/RAG 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.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "pdfUrls": [
12        "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
13        "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf"
14    ]
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("teddythebuilder/pdf-text-extractor").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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