PDF Quote Finder & Page Citation Locator
Pricing
$0.01 / pdf quote location
Find quoted text in a public PDF's embedded text and return its page, passage, context, matching method, document hash, metadata, redirects, and retrieval provenance.
contractVersion
Optional
Stable Actor output contract version.
ok
Optional
Whether a complete embedded-text determination was produced.
request
Optional
Redacted request, original quote, quote hash, and matching mode.
{ "url": "https://example.com/document.pdf", "text": "Example quoted passage", "textHash": "sha256:abc123", "matching": "normalized"}source
Optional
Retrieved PDF HTTP and content-hash provenance.
{ "requestedUrl": "https://example.com/document.pdf", "finalUrl": "https://cdn.example.com/document.pdf", "httpStatus": 200, "contentLength": 4096, "contentHash": "sha256:def456", "retrievedAt": "2026-08-19T12:00:00.000Z", "durationMs": 320, "redirectChain": []}Optional
Sanitized PDF.js and document metadata.
{ "pdfJsVersion": "6.2.108", "pdfFormatVersion": "1.7", "physicalPageCount": 4, "metadataTruncated": false}extraction
Optional
Embedded-text extraction coverage and representation facts.
{ "status": "complete", "method": "pdfjs-content-order-v1", "searchScope": "embedded_text_only", "extractedPageCount": 4, "totalPageCount": 4, "pagesContainingText": 4, "pagesWithoutExtractableText": 0, "characterCount": 1200, "pageJoiningRule": "one_newline_between_trimmed_physical_pages"}verification
Optional
Deterministic quote result, context, global offsets, and page locations.
{ "match": true, "matchType": "normalized_exact", "algorithm": "unicode-nfkc-casefold-whitespace-punctuation-v1", "score": 1, "threshold": 1, "occurrenceCount": 1, "startOffset": 128, "endOffset": 150, "searchScope": "embedded_text_only"}warnings
Optional
Stable non-fatal warning objects.
[]error
Optional
Stable machine-readable error when ok is false.
{ "code": "INVALID_PDF", "message": "The response does not contain a PDF signature.", "retryable": false, "stage": "parse", "details": {}}