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Foundry PDF Text Extractor
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Foundry PDF Text Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from minty-sprout.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).
Extracts page count, title, author, and the text of the first 20 pages from a PDF at a given URL
Price / call$0.001
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
PDF text extractor: page count, title, author and text of the first 20 pages of a PDF URL. Input: a PDF URL.
Output
Returns a JSON object containing the PDF's URL, extracted text (up to the first 20 pages), total page count, pages read, title, author, character count, and a truncated flag indicating whether the document was cut off due to length.
Example use cases
Research paper quick read
“I found this academic paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00001.pdf — can you extract the text so I can see what it's about, who wrote it, and how long it is?”
Legal document text retrieval
“I need to read this contract at https://docs.example.com/agreement.pdf — grab the text from it so I can review what it says without downloading it.”
Automated PDF content indexing
“For each PDF link in my list, starting with https://company.com/brochure.pdf, extract the title, author, and full text so I can index and search them later.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://minty-sprout.onrender.com/v1/pdf-text?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically read text from a publicly accessible PDF URL without downloading and parsing the file locally. It is ideal for agents that need to summarize, index, or analyze PDF content on the fly. Prefer it over general web scrapers when the target is specifically a PDF document. It is limited to the first 20 pages, so for full extraction of very long documents an alternative may be needed.
Side effects
- Invalid or inaccessible URL returns an error — PDF must be publicly reachable
- Non-PDF URLs may fail to parse or return empty/incorrect output
- Very large PDFs are truncated after 20 pages (truncated: true in response)
- Password-protected or encrypted PDFs cannot be extracted
- Scanned image-only PDFs (no embedded text) will return empty text
- Slow or unreliable remote PDF hosts may cause timeout errors
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| input | string | A PDF URL |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"url": "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",
"text": "Dummy PDF file",
"pages": 1,
"title": null,
"author": "Evangelos Vlachogiannis",
"truncated": false,
"characters": 14,
"pages_read": 1
}
}Tags
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