PDF Text Extractor - Bulk PDF to Text & Metadata

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Extract text and structured metadata from any PDF URL at scale. Perfect for document analysis, research papers, compliance docs, and building searchable archives.

What you get

• Full text extraction — clean text from every page
• PDF metadata — title, author, creation date, producer, keywords
• Page-level info — count, dimensions, character distribution
• Scanned detection — flags PDFs that need OCR (heuristic: low text density)
• Encryption detection — flags password-protected PDFs
• Bulk processing — verify hundreds in one run, parallel safe
• Pay-per-result — $0.005 per PDF, no monthly fees

Use with AI Agents (MCP)

Connect this actor to any MCP-compatible AI client — Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom agents.

Apify MCP server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/pdf-extractor

Example prompt once connected:

"Use pdf-extractor to process data with pdf extractor. Return results as a table."

Clients that support dynamic tool discovery (Claude.ai, VS Code) will receive the full input schema automatically via add-actor.

Example output

{
"url":"https://example.com/whitepaper.pdf",
"file_size_bytes":524288,
"success":true,
"page_count":14,
"text_length":28450,
"text":"Introduction\n\nThis whitepaper explores...",
"metadata":{
"title":"Quarterly Report 2026",
"author":"Jane Smith",
"creation_date":"2026-03-15T10:23:00Z",
"creator":"Microsoft Word",
"producer":"Acrobat Distiller"
},
"is_encrypted":false,
"is_scanned":false,
"needs_ocr":false
}

Use cases

• Research & academia — extract content from papers, white papers, dissertations
• Document archiving — build searchable indexes from PDF libraries
• Compliance — bulk-extract contract text for review
• Data extraction — invoice/receipt text mining
• Content moderation — scan PDFs for keywords
• OCR preparation — flag scanned PDFs that need image-to-text processing

Pricing

Example: Process 1,000 PDFs ≈ $5.00

Issues & Feedback

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we respond within 24 hours.

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