PDF to Text API

Use plain text when document layout is not required

Request

Send a POST request to https://gettxt.ai/api/extract/. Authenticate with the x-api-key header. documentUris is required and accepts 1–10 directly accessible URLs.

{
  "documentUris": [
    "https://example.com/research-paper.pdf"
  ],
  "outputFormat": "text"
}

documentUris (required)

One to ten public URLs. Supported file types can be mixed in one request.

outputFormat (optional)

Use text or markdown. Plain text is the default.

summarize and translate (optional)

Set summarize to true and/or provide a language code such as de or es for translate.

Examples

cURL

curl -X POST "https://gettxt.ai/api/extract/" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "documentUris": [
    "https://example.com/research-paper.pdf"
  ],
  "outputFormat": "text"
}'

Python

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://gettxt.ai/api/extract/",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
    "documentUris": [
        "https://example.com/research-paper.pdf"
    ],
    "outputFormat": "text"
}
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json()["documents"][0]["extractedText"])

Node.js

const response = await fetch("https://gettxt.ai/api/extract/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "documentUris": [
    "https://example.com/research-paper.pdf"
  ],
  "outputFormat": "text"
})
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Extraction failed: ${response.status}`);
const result = await response.json();
console.log(result.documents[0].extractedText);

Synchronous response

Processing completes within the HTTP request. A successful JSON response includes combined content, credit totals, word counts, and a result for each submitted URL.

{
  "creditsUsed": 1,
  "creditsRemaining": 99,
  "totalWordCount": 500,
  "all_text": "Extracted content from all documents...",
  "documents": [
    {
      "documentUri": "https://example.com/research-paper.pdf",
      "status": "succeeded",
      "wordCount": 500,
      "extractedText": "Extracted text content..."
    }
  ]
}

Errors

• 400: Invalid, empty, inaccessible, oversized, or unsupported input.
• 401: Missing or invalid API key.
• 403: Insufficient credits or access denied.
• 413: File exceeds the service limit.
• 429: Too many requests; retry later.
• 500/503/504: Processing, service, or timeout failure.

See the API documentation for the full request and error reference.