PDF Text Extractor: Bulk PDF to Text and Metadata, $1 per 1,000 PDFs

Pull plain text, page-by-page content, and full metadata from any PDF URL. Returns title, author, creation date, page count, character count, and flags for scanned (image-only) or encrypted documents. Built for bulk: pass it 10,000 URLs and it returns structured rows. Ideal for legal discovery, RAG ingestion, compliance audits, and document workflow automation.

What you get

• Page text: full extracted text plus per-page array for paginated workflows
• Metadata: title, author, subject, creator, producer, creation_date, modification_date
• Stats: page_count, char_count, word_count, file_size_bytes
• Flags: is_scanned (image-only PDF), is_encrypted, is_form
• Source: source_url, content_type, http_status, scraped_at

Primary use cases

• Legal discovery. Bulk-extract text from court filings, contracts, and pleadings for keyword search and review
• RAG ingestion. Feed PDF reports, whitepapers, and manuals directly into vector databases
• Compliance audits. Scan thousands of policy PDFs for required clauses, signatures, or regulatory keywords
• Research aggregation. Pull abstracts, authors, and full text from academic preprint URLs
• Invoice and receipt parsing. Extract structured text from supplier PDFs in accounts-payable pipelines

API example

# Start a run via the Apify API
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~pdf-extractor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "pdfUrls": [
      "https://example.com/report-2026.pdf",
      "https://example.com/contract-v3.pdf",
      "https://example.com/whitepaper.pdf"
    ],
    "extractText": true,
    "extractMetadata": true,
    "perPageText": false
  }'

# Or use with AI agents via MCP:
# https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/pdf-extractor

Integrations

• n8n, Make, Zapier: trigger runs and process records via webhook
• AI Agents (MCP): Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex
• Python, Node.js: Apify SDK for programmatic access
• Google Sheets, Airtable: bulk input in, structured data out

Output fields

Related Actors

• HTML to Markdown: web pages converted to clean markdown for the same pipelines
• Wikipedia Scraper: extract Wikipedia articles by title or URL with metadata
• Sitemap URL Discovery: find every PDF link on a site before bulk extraction