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Extract text from PDF

Pull plain text out of a PDF, page by page. Useful when the content is selectable.

Max 5 MB per file. Files are processed in memory and removed within one hour. Returns: One .txt file.

How it works

Drop in a PDF; the response is a plain-text file containing the document's text, with double newlines between pages.

Building this into your app?

The same operation runs under the API endpoint shown below for authenticated calls.

/api/v1/pdf/extract-text

See the API docs for examples.