PDF to Markdown & Document to Text for LLM/RAG, with OCR
Pricing
Pay per usage
Convert PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, HTML, EPUB and images to clean Markdown or text, with tables, OCR for scans and RAG-ready chunks. Links or uploaded files, one row per document.
You can access the PDF to Markdown & Document to Text for LLM/RAG, with OCR 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.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "sources": [12 "https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.04162018.pdf",13 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwilliamson/python-mammoth/f3b7b9fc73fdbffe6ebac77e6b3ac6c418ee33d9/tests/test-data/tables.docx",14 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/232ff181c66516116ec0e84c4963f70de15050fd/testing/phototest.tif"15 ],16 "ocrLanguages": [17 "eng"18 ],19 "maxPagesPerDocument": 520};21
22// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish23const run = await client.actor("tinlark/document-to-markdown").call(input);24
25// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)26console.log('Results from dataset');27console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);28const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();29items.forEach((item) => {30 console.dir(item);31});32
33// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PDF to Markdown & Document to Text for LLM/RAG, with OCR API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: