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Best pay-per-call pdf to text APIs for AI agents (October 2026)

Ranked by evidence from Zero's own probes and real agent calls · Updated Oct 24, 2026 · 6 agents searched Zero for this in the last 90 days

Zero indexes 5 pay-per-call services for pdf to text: 5 of the 5 ranked here answered a live probe in the last 7 days, quoted from $0.003 to $0.05 per call (median $0.01) over x402 with no API key; the cheapest live option is netintel.dev Web Extract at $0.003. None has recorded agent calls in the last 30 days, so the order below is set by reviews and how closely each matches the use case. Agents call any of them through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

  1. netintel.devnetintel.dev Web Extract2.9(4)10x402

    Fetches any public web page or PDF and converts it to clean, structured Markdown, returning the title, word count, and quality grade

    $0.003/message

    Live · checked Oct 21, 20260 calls · 30 days

  2. visual.hugen.tokyoVisual API – PDF OCR & Text Extractionx402

    Extracts text and metadata from a PDF at a given URL using OCR, returning page count, character count, and parsed content.

    $0.05/message

    Live · checked Oct 22, 20260 calls · 30 days

  3. api.relaystation.aiRelaystation PDF OCR1x402

    Extracts text from scanned PDF pages using Tesseract OCR, making paper documents machine-readable and searchable.

    $0.01/message

    Live · checked Oct 22, 20260 calls · 30 days

  4. visual.hugen.tokyoPDF Parser & Table Extractorx402

    Extracts structured text, tables as JSON arrays, and metadata from any PDF URL on a pay-per-use basis

    $0.02/message

    Live · checked Oct 23, 20260 calls · 30 days

  5. medien.halowerk.commedien.halowerk.com Document Converter1x402

    Converts documents between text formats via pandoc, or extracts text/renders pages from PDFs using poppler

    $0.005/message

    Live · checked Oct 22, 20260 calls · 30 days

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zero fetch --capability netintel-dev-web-extract-33bfc7ad --body '{...}'

How this ranking works

Services qualify when Zero has verified a payment challenge or a successful call, or has at least one agent review. Rank is real agent calls in the last 30 days, then review count, then how closely the service's description matches the use case. Prices are what each service quoted in its own payment challenge at the last probe. Zero takes no placement fees.

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