Name: pdf-to-text
Price: 0.20 USDC
Availability: InStock

$ man pdf-to-text

agentutility / mediakit / pdf-to-text

PRICE / CALL

$0.20

USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact

METHOD

POST

CLUSTER

mediakit

CATEGORY

uncategorized

STATUS

● live

NAME

pdf-to-text — pdf to text / extract text from pdf

synonym alias of pdf-to-markdown — reuses the canonical handler.

SYNOPSIS

POST https://x402.org/v1/pdf-to-text
     Content-Type: application/json
     X-PAYMENT:    <signed-transferWithAuthorization>

     { ... }

↳ first call → 402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.

DESCRIPTION

PDF to text / extract text from PDF. AI-powered text extraction via Datalab Marker. OCR + layout-aware. Best-in-class for tables, equations, multi-column layouts. Outputs plain text or structured markdown. 30 pages max.

INPUT — request schema

property	type	description	req?
pdf_url	string	Public URL of a PDF file.	required
output_format	string	'markdown' (default), 'html', or 'json'. enum: markdown · html · json	optional

OUTPUT — response shape

field	type	description
markdown	string	Extracted text from the PDF as plain text or layout-aware markdown preserving tables, equations, and columns.
page_count	string	Number of pages processed from the source PDF (capped at the 30-page per-call limit).
source_url	string	URL of the PDF that was fetched and processed for text extraction.

EXAMPLES — two ways to call

EXAMPLE 1 · curl

curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/pdf-to-text \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ }'

first response = 402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.

EXAMPLE 2 · mcp

# install once
claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp"

# then ask Claude Code:
# "use the pdf-to-text tool to ..."

MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.

METADATA

tags: pdfpdf-to-texttext-extractionocrdocument-parsingmarkdownmediakitdatalab-marker
methods: POST
cluster: mediakit
price: $0.20 USDC per call

ADJACENT — other endpoints in mediakit

endpoint	description	price
convert-pdf	Convert PDF to Markdown, HTML, JSON, or structured text via Datalab Marker.	$0.20
ocr	OCR / optical character recognition / scanned document extractor / image-PDF to text.	$0.20
pdf-to-markdown	AI PDF extractor: PDF to Markdown / HTML / structured JSON via Datalab Marker.	$0.20
pdf2md	PDF to Markdown converter.	$0.20
extract-tables	Extract tables from PDF / table extractor / PDF to CSV / spreadsheet from PDF.	$0.10
mp4-to-mp3	MP4 → MP3 audio extractor.	$0.10
pdf-extract-tables	PDF table extractor / table from PDF / scanned-table parsing / financial-table OCR / multi-page table consolidator / Datalab Marker tables.	$0.10
pdf-to-jpg	PDF to JPG / PNG / WEBP image converter.	$0.10

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