What it returns

Extract clean text from PDF, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and web page links: one row per PDF page or spreadsheet sheet, with title, author and page count. Up to 50 links per run.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/document-text-extractor/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

Field	Type	Description
`urls`	list of strings	Links to PDF, DOCX, XLSX or HTML files (up to 50, 50 MB each).
`pages`	string	Comma-separated page numbers to extract, e.g. 1,2,5. Empty for all pages.
`maxItems`	integer	Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: `100`.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/document-text-extractor/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"], "maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.80 per 1,000 pages. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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Document Text Extractor: PDF, Word, Excel