PDF Text Extractor for LLMs: text per page from PDF URLs

ACTOR=steadydata~pdf-text-extractor
URL="https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR/run-sync-get-dataset-items"

curl -X POST "$URL?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"], "mergePages": false, "maxPagesPerFile": 200}'

import os, requests

ACTOR = "steadydata~pdf-text-extractor"
URL = f"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/{ACTOR}/run-sync-get-dataset-items"

rows = requests.post(
    URL,
    params={"token": os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"]},
    json={'urls': ['https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762'], 'mergePages': False, 'maxPagesPerFile': 200},
    timeout=900,
).json()

# every row carries a status; failures are records, not exceptions
ok = [r for r in rows if r.get("status") == "ok"]
print(len(ok), "rows delivered")

const ACTOR = "steadydata~pdf-text-extractor";
const url =
  `https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/${ACTOR}/run-sync-get-dataset-items` +
  `?token=${process.env.APIFY_TOKEN}`;

const rows = await fetch(url, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({"urls": ["https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"], "mergePages": false, "maxPagesPerFile": 200}),
}).then((r) => r.json());

// one object per delivered row, same shape every time
console.log(rows.filter((r) => r.status === "ok").length, "rows");

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=steadydata/pdf-text-extractor

# the tool arrives in your agent as steadydata--pdf-text-extractor

{
  "url": string | null,
  "fileName": string | null,
  "page": integer | null,
  "pageCount": integer | null,
  "text": string | null,
  "characters": integer | null,
  "hasTextLayer": boolean | null,
  "title": string | null,
  "author": string | null,
  "subject": string | null,
  "createdAt": string | null,
  "modifiedAt": string | null,
  "producer": string | null,
  "fileBytes": integer | null,
  "encrypted": boolean | null,
  "status": string | null,
  "input": string | null,
  "errorCode": string | null,
  "error": string | null
}