Extract text from a PDF URL

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Extract text from a PDF by URL: the text of each page of a public PDF file (up to 10 MB), with the page count, title and author; scanned PDFs without a text layer fail uncharged. Use to read reports, papers, invoices and filings into an LLM, RAG or an agent's context.

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Try it with your own inputs

Absolute public http(s) URL of the PDF

Uses one of your 25 free calls. Nothing is charged, and a call that fails is not counted.

Inputs

NameTypeDescription
url (required)stringAbsolute public http(s) URL of the PDF
firstPageintegerFirst page to read (default 1)
pagesintegerHow many pages to read (1-200, default 20)
maxCharsintegerMaximum characters of text returned across all pages (1000-200000, default 50000)

Request

Over HTTP, with a card key from /credits:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer adt_…" "https://tools.funwords.eu/pdf/extract?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoin.org%2Fbitcoin.pdf"

Or one of your 25 free calls, no key:

curl "https://tools.funwords.eu/pdf/extract?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoin.org%2Fbitcoin.pdf&trial=1"

Without a key, the same URL answers 402 Payment Required with x402 and MPP terms, so an agent with a wallet pays per call in USDC (Base, Polygon, Arbitrum or Solana over x402; Base or Tempo over MPP) and retries.

Example result

{
  "url": "https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf",
  "title": null,
  "author": null,
  "totalPages": 9,
  "firstPage": 1,
  "pagesRead": 1,
  "chars": 46,
  "truncated": true,
  "pages": [
    {
      "page": 1,
      "chars": 46,
      "text": "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
    }
  ]
}

From an AI agent (MCP)

Add the MCP server to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. This tool is pdf_extract, and the first 25 successful calls are free:

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