The PDF to TXT feature does the reverse of the above: it extracts the text content from a PDF into a plain-text file, which is useful for indexing, search, or feeding the content into another system.
- Endpoint family: /pdf-to-txt/v1.
- For scanned (image-only) PDFs with no embedded text layer, run OCR first — see the next article — since PDF to TXT only extracts text that's already encoded in the file.