# Mekong Trade Intel PDF Text Extractor

> Mekong Trade Intel PDF Text Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from api.mekongtradeintel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Extracts and returns plain text from any publicly accessible PDF URL, with SSRF protection.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/pdf?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-pdf-text-extractor-43806685
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iG4S5UyqpY0e-PkDTb-rX

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 mekong-trade-intel-pdf-text-extractor-43806685
```

Example prompt: Can you extract the text from this PDF for me? Here's the URL: https://example.com/report.pdf

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically extract text from a publicly accessible PDF URL without setting up an account or API key. It is ideal for lightweight, one-off PDF text extraction tasks in agent workflows where the document is available at a public HTTP/HTTPS URL. Prefer alternatives if you need OCR for scanned image-based PDFs, structured data extraction, or batch processing of many documents.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-PDF URL returns an error
- Private, paywalled, or authentication-required PDFs cannot be accessed
- URLs that resolve to internal/private IP ranges are blocked by SSRF protection
- Scanned/image-only PDFs with no embedded text return empty or minimal text
- Very large PDFs may time out or return partial content
- Malformed or corrupted PDF files may fail to parse

## How this service works

Extract text from any public PDF URL with SSRF protection. $0.002 per call. No account or API key needed.

## Output

Returns the extracted plain text content from the PDF document found at the provided URL, including all readable textual elements from the document pages.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Public http(s) URL of the PDF to extract text from"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mekong-trade-intel-pdf-text-extractor-43806685/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mekongtradeintel.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt)