PDFTextConverter
Pull the text out of a PDF right on this page. pdf.js reads the document's text layer in your browser, page by page, and the result copies or downloads as a .txt file. Nothing is uploaded, and a scanned PDF with no text layer gets a message saying so.
Pull the text out of a PDF here
Runs in your browser. The file stays on your device and nothing is uploaded.
Drop a PDF here, or choose one from your device.
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How It Works
Choose a PDF or drop it on the reader at the top of this page. It stays in your browser.
pdf.js, the PDF engine inside Firefox, opens the file in a worker thread and reads the text layer of every page.
Text is joined into lines wherever the PDF marks a line end or the baseline moves, and pages are separated by a blank line.
Copy the text or download it as a .txt file. The JSON download keeps the text page by page, with the document's title and author.
For a document library, the API code below runs an extractor over every PDF in a bucket on Mixpeek's servers.
Code Examples
import os, requests
API = "https://api.mixpeek.com"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MIXPEEK_API_KEY']}",
"X-Namespace": os.environ["NAMESPACE_ID"]}
# 1. a bucket, with a schema that declares the field you will send
bucket = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets", headers=H, json={
"bucket_name": "pdf-inputs",
"bucket_schema": {"properties": {"pdf": {"type": "pdf"}}},
}).json()
# 2. land the file as an object. the URL goes in data, on the blob
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/objects", headers=H, json={
"key_prefix": "run-1",
"blobs": [{"property": "pdf", "type": "pdf",
"data": "https://example.com/report.pdf"}],
})
# 3. a collection over that bucket, running the extractor
collection = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/collections", headers=H, json={
"collection_name": "pdf-to-text",
"source": {"type": "bucket", "bucket_ids": [bucket["bucket_id"]]},
"feature_extractor": {"feature_extractor_name": "document_graph_extractor", "version": "v1"},
}).json()
# 4. run extraction over the bucket
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/batches", headers=H, json={
"collection_ids": [collection["collection_id"]],
"auto_submit": True,
})
# 5. read the output
docs = requests.get(
f"{API}/v1/collections/{collection['collection_id']}/documents", headers=H
).json()
print(docs)Use Cases
Supported Input Formats
Quick Info
Run it over a library
Mixpeek runs this conversion as a pipeline over a whole library in your object storage, with the output landing as queryable documents. The reader on this page handles one file at a time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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