PDF to Text#

What It Does#

Extracts plain text from all or selected pages of a PDF.

When to Use#

• Extract readable text from a PDF for processing or analysis
• Get raw text content from PDF documents

Required Inputs#

Provide one of:

• url — public URL to a PDF
• file — base64-encoded PDF
• Multipart upload with file field

Authentication#

Send your API key in the CLIENT-API-KEY header.

Get your free API key at https://pdfapihub.com. Full API documentation is available at https://pdfapihub.com/docs.

Use Cases#

• Full-Text Search Indexing — Extract text from PDFs to build searchable indexes
• AI/LLM Processing — Extract PDF text for feeding into language models or chatbots
• Content Migration — Pull text from legacy PDF documents for migration to new systems
• Plagiarism Detection — Extract text for comparison and duplicate detection
• Accessibility — Extract text from PDFs for screen readers or text-to-speech

Aliases#

• /v1/convert/pdf/text is an alias

Example Usage#

bash

curl -X POST https://pdfapihub.com/api/v1/convert/pdf/txt \
  -H "CLIENT-API-KEY: your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://pdfapihub.com/sample-pdfapi-intro.pdf", "output": "url" }'