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description
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Extract plain text from a PDF.

PDF to Text

Extract all readable plain text from a PDF document into a text file.

API Endpoint

POST /api/v1/tools/pdf/pdf-to-text

Accepts multipart form data with a PDF file.

Parameters

This tool has no configurable parameters. Upload a PDF and its text content will be extracted.

Example Request

curl -X POST http://localhost:1349/api/v1/tools/pdf/pdf-to-text \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer si_your-api-key" \
  -F "file=@report.pdf"

Example Response

{
  "jobId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
  "downloadUrl": "/api/v1/download/a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890/report.txt",
  "originalSize": 520000,
  "processedSize": 14300,
  "chars": 14300
}

Notes

  • Accepted input format: .pdf.
  • This is a fast (synchronous) tool that returns the result directly.
  • The chars field in the response indicates the number of characters extracted.
  • Only digitally embedded text is extracted. For scanned documents or image-based PDFs, use the PDF OCR tool instead.