Extract PDF Content API
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Effortlessly extract the entire content of PDF documents with our API. Retrieve the text page by page, making it easy to analyze, repurpose, or process the data programmatically. Perfect for automation and content management.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent can call
read-pdf-content directly.
Benefits of our Extract PDF Content API
Easily extract all the text content from your PDFs with our comprehensive Extract PDF Content API.
Retrieve clean, structured text ready for analysis, indexing, or repurposing, ensuring no detail
is overlooked. This feature empowers you to automate data processing and content management,
providing a reliable foundation for enhanced workflow efficiency.
Read our API documentation to learn how to extract content of PDFs.
Multi-language Code Example
curl -X POST https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read \
-H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" \
-d file="FILE_URL"const data = new FormData();
data.append('file', 'FILE_URL');
fetch('https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read', {
headers: {'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN'},
method: 'POST',
body: data
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(json => console.log(json));use GuzzleHttp\Client;
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->post(
'https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read', [
'headers' => [
'Authorization' => 'Bearer TOKEN'
],
'form_params' => [
'file' => 'FILE_URL'
]
]);
$body = $response->getBody();
echo json_encode($body->getContents());require 'rest-client'
response = RestClient.post(
'https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read',
{
'file' => 'FILE_URL'
},
{
Authorization: "Bearer TOKEN"
}
)
puts response.bodyimport requests
response = requests.post(
'https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read',
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN'
},
data = {
'file': 'FILE_URL'
}
)
print(response.text)import (
"fmt"
"github.com/go-resty/resty/v2"
)
func main() {
client := resty.New()
data := map[string]string{
"file": "FILE_URL"
}
resp, _ := client.R().
SetFormData(data).
SetHeader("Authorization", "Bearer TOKEN").
Post("https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read")
fmt.Println(resp.String())
}import okhttp3.*;
class Pdf {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
FormBody formBody = new FormBody.Builder()
.add("file", "FILE_URL")
.build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://apdf.io/api/pdf/content/read")
.addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer TOKEN")
.post(formBody)
.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
System.out.println(response.body().string());
}
}No-Code PDF Content Extracting
Integrate our PDF API with Zapier Webhooks to automate your PDF content extracting workflows effortlessly. Whether you're retrieving complete text from reports, contracts, or archives, you can trigger PDF content extraction from hundreds of apps supported by Zapier. Automatically extract all textual content, enabling efficient data analysis and eliminating manual copy-pasting.
Your code made the PDF.
Then it went dark.
Opened, read, re-read, dropped on page 4 — you never see any of it. Share the PDFs you generate through Apdf recipient links, and every signal becomes something you can act on: ping Slack, update the CRM, let an agent follow up. Same account, same API token, one more call.
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