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    PDF
    Text
    Converter

    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.

    Max file size: 200 MB, read in your browser
    Estimated: Seconds for most documents, in your browser
    1 input formats

    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

    1

    Choose a PDF or drop it on the reader at the top of this page. It stays in your browser.

    2

    pdf.js, the PDF engine inside Firefox, opens the file in a worker thread and reads the text layer of every page.

    3

    Text is joined into lines wherever the PDF marks a line end or the baseline moves, and pages are separated by a blank line.

    4

    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.

    5

    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

    Pull quotes and figures from reports without retyping them
    Extract text from research papers and academic publications
    Ingest legal contracts and regulatory filings for analysis
    Build full-text search indexes for document libraries

    Supported Input Formats

    PDF

    Quick Info

    Categorydocument
    Max File Size200 MB, read in your browser
    Est. TimeSeconds for most documents, in your browser

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    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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