Convert a research paper PDF to text for AI

Created by

tidydata

Actor

PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — Scanned PDFs, Photos, Screenshots

Extracts the full text of a PDF page by page (here: the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper from arXiv), ready for summarising, RAG or LLM prompts. Digital PDFs are read directly; scanned pages fall back to OCR automatically.

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PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — Scanned PDFs, Photos, Screenshotstidydata/pdf-image-text-extractor

File name

File type

Pages

Pages processed

+5 fields

Input

File URLs(required)

url:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762

Extraction mode:auto

Output fields

File name

File type

Pages

Pages processed

Method

Words

Text

Error

Url

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