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Pdf Scraper

A high-performance Apify Actor that inspects, classifies, and extracts structured data from PDF files. It intelligently detect whether a PDF is text-based or scanned and converts it into clean, formatted Markdown.

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📄 PDF Inspector Actor

A high-performance Apify Actor that inspects, classifies, and extracts structured data from PDF files. It intelligently detect whether a PDF is text-based or scanned and converts it into clean, formatted Markdown.

🚀 Features

⚡️ Blazing Fast: Native Rust implementation ensures minimal latency and low memory usage.
🧠 Smart Detection: Automatically classifies PDFs as TextBased, Scanned, ImageBased, or Mixed.
📝 Clean Markdown: Extracts text and formatting (headers, lists, code blocks, bold/italic) into LLM-ready Markdown.
⚙️ Highly Configurable: Fine-tune detection sensitivity, font sizes, and formatting rules.
🔒 Privacy First: All processing happens securely within the Actor container.

📥 Input

The Actor accepts a simple JSON input. You can configure the URL and various processing options.

Example Input

{
    "url": "https://pdfobject.com/pdf/sample.pdf",
    "detect_headers": true,
    "detect_lists": true,
    "fix_hyphenation": true
}

Configuration Options

Field	Type	Default	Description
`url`	`String`	Required	Direct URL to the PDF file.
`detect_headers`	`Boolean`	`true`	Detect headers based on font size hierarchy.
`detect_lists`	`Boolean`	`true`	Detect bullet points and numbered lists.
`detect_code`	`Boolean`	`true`	Detect code blocks using monospace fonts.
`fix_hyphenation`	`Boolean`	`true`	Attempt to rejoin words broken across lines.
`base_font_size`	`Number`	`Auto`	Override base font size (useful if headers aren't detected).
`remove_page_numbers`	`Boolean`	`true`	Cleanup standalone page numbers.
`format_urls`	`Boolean`	`true`	Convert URLs into Markdown links.

📤 Output

The Actor saves the result to the Default Key-Value Store and Dataset.

Example Output JSON

{
    "url": "https://pdfobject.com/pdf/sample.pdf",
    "inspection_result": {
        "pdf_type": "TextBased",
        "text": null,
        "markdown": "# Sample PDF\n\nThis is a header...\n\n- List item 1\n- List item 2",
        "page_count": 1,
        "processing_time_ms": 12
    }
}

Output Fields

pdf_type: one of TextBased, Scanned, ImageBased, Mixed.
markdown: The extracted content formatted as Markdown.
page_count: Total number of pages in the document.
processing_time_ms: Time taken to process the file in milliseconds.

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