# ClinkAgent PDF to Text Extractor

> ClinkAgent PDF to Text Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from clinkagent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Extracts plain text from any public PDF URL, returning the full text content, page count, and a scanned-document flag

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://clinkagent.com/pdf/text?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/clinkagent-pdf-to-text-extractor-9bd15bb2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2C41C3exp-PWGhvsjFsb7

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability clinkagent-pdf-to-text-extractor-9bd15bb2
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full text out of this PDF for me? It's at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/2024/QTR1/company.pdf — I need the plain text so I can analyze it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fast, no-auth, pay-per-call PDF text extraction from a public URL without setting up an API key or account. Ideal for text-based PDFs such as SEC filings, academic papers, reports, and invoices. If you also need to ask a natural language question about the PDF content, prefer the companion QA endpoint instead. Not suitable for scanned/image-only PDFs that require OCR.

## Known failure modes

- PDF URL is not publicly accessible or returns a non-200 response
- PDF exceeds 25MB size limit
- PDF contains only scanned images with no embedded text (likely_scanned=true, minimal text returned)
- Extracted text exceeds 500k character limit
- Invalid or non-PDF URL provided
- Network timeout fetching the remote PDF

## How this service works

Convert PDF to text for AI agents - pass any public PDF URL, get the full extracted plain text in one call. pdftotext / convertpdftotext / pdf to text converter / extract text from PDF / read a PDF / parse PDF documents, papers, SEC filings, reports, invoices, manuals. Up to 25MB and 500k chars, with page count and a likely_scanned flag (text-based PDFs only, no OCR). No API key, no account. ?url=<public PDF url>. Free live sample: /pdf/example.

## Output

Returns the full extracted plain text of the PDF (up to 500,000 characters / 25MB), along with the total page count and a 'likely_scanned' boolean flag indicating whether the PDF appears to be a scanned image rather than text-based. Only works on text-based PDFs — no OCR is performed on scanned documents.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Public http(s) URL of a PDF file"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf",
  "text": "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System...",
  "chars": 21228,
  "pages": 9,
  "truncated": false,
  "likely_scanned": false
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/clinkagent-pdf-to-text-extractor-9bd15bb2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clinkagent.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clinkagent.com/llms.txt)