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PDF URL to Text Extractor
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PDF URL to Text Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from workspace-x402-paywall.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).
Fetches a PDF from a public URL and returns its extracted text content as a string, capped at 50,000 characters
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Fetches a PDF from a URL and returns the extracted text as a string in a JSON object, capped at 50,000 characters
Output
A JSON object containing the extracted text from the PDF as a string, truncated to a maximum of 50,000 characters if the document is longer.
Example use cases
Research paper text extraction
“I need the text from this academic paper PDF so I can summarize it — the URL is https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00001.pdf, can you extract all the text from it?”
Contract or legal document reading
“Can you read this contract PDF at https://company.com/legal/agreement.pdf and tell me what it says about termination clauses?”
Financial report analysis
“Pull the text out of this annual report PDF at https://investor.example.com/2023-annual-report.pdf so I can analyze the revenue figures.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://workspace-x402-paywall.onrender.com/scrape/pdf?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly extract raw text from a publicly accessible PDF file given only its URL, without needing to download or process the file locally. It is well-suited for agent workflows that need to read PDF content on-the-fly as part of research, summarization, or analysis pipelines. At $0.01 per call it is cost-effective for occasional PDF reads.
Side effects
- Invalid or non-public URL returns an error
- URL does not point to a valid PDF file
- PDF is password-protected or encrypted and cannot be parsed
- PDF contains only scanned images with no extractable text layer
- Network timeout if the PDF URL is slow or unreachable
- Text truncated at 50,000 characters for very large documents
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object |
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