PDF / documents scrapers compared
37 tools that scrape PDF / documents, ranked by real usage over the last 30 days. Success rate is the share of public runs that finished successfully in the last 30 days. 429 people used one of these in the past month.
Most used: PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata (126 users in 30 days).
Most reliable with 100+ runs: HTML to PDF Converter (100.0% of 1,669 runs succeeded).
Cheapest with at least 95% success: PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata ($5.00 per 1,000 results, list price).
| Tool | Users 30d | Success 30d | Runs 30d | Per 1k results | Per run | Rating | Last run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDF Text Extractor — Markdown, OCR & Metadata memo23/pdf-text-extractor | 126 | 97.3% | 1,018 | $5.00 | $0.005 | 5.0 (2) | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor automation-lab/pdf-text-extractor | 123 | 99.4% | 4,019 | — | $0.005 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Bulk OCR: Image & Scanned PDF to Text from CSV or Google Sheet nerolabs/bulk-ocr-image-pdf-to-text | 40 | 91.9% | 173 | $5.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| $3.5 Carfax Report by VIN (PDF)✅ - Lookup & Car History Reports easytools/carfax-report-by-vin | 23 | 98.9% | 176 | $990.00 | $0.001 | 5.0 (4) | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF OCR Extractor — scanned PDFs to text (Arabic + English) amanatools/pdf-ocr-extractor | 23 | 100.0% | 99 | $5.00 | $0.002 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Convert Image to PDF and PDF to Image akash9078/image-pdf-converter | 16 | 100.0% | 52 | $0.010 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Consulta e Download NFe por Chave de Acesso - XML + DANFE PDF brasildados/api-consulta-nfe-por-chave | 12 | 98.0% | 349 | $40.00 | — | 5.0 (2) | 2026-10-16 |
| HTML to PDF Converter rainminer/html-to-pdf-converter | 11 | 100.0% | 1,669 | $9.99 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF OCR ely_source/pdf-ocr | 11 | 97.7% | 43 | $20.00 | $0.010 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| HTML to PDF converterby Apify apify/html-to-pdf-converter | 9 | 99.3% | 416 | free | — | 4.3 (3) | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF to MP3 - Convert PDF, EPUB, DOCX & Text to Audiobook marielise.dev/pdf-to-mp3 | 9 | 100.0% | 123 | $40.00 | $0.050 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| URL to PDF Converter rainminer/url-to-pdf-converter | 5 | 99.7% | 2,886 | $14.99 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Pdf OCR API cspnair/pdf-ocr-api | 2 | 86.1% | 36 | $0.010 | <$0.001 | 5.0 (3) | 2026-10-16 |
| Pdf To Jpg Converter programmersoham/pdf-to-jpg-converter | 1 | 100.0% | 30 | $0.010 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| Document to Markdown: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB nebulacolors/document-to-markdown | 1 | — | 2 | $3.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Docs to Text: PDF, DOCX & OCR sipki/docs-to-text-ocr | 1 | — | 1 | $3.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| SiteVerdict — PDF & Invoice Data Extractor (tables, line items) siteverdict/siteverdict-pdf-invoice-extractor | 1 | — | 5 | $2.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Tables Extractor — Tables Out of Any PDF alaudinburki/pdf-tables-extractor | 1 | 100.0% | 24 | $4.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF & Image OCR: Text, Tables & Markdown Extractor edgar2026/pdf-image-ocr | 1 | — | 5 | $1.00 | $0.020 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor dr.skywalker/pdf-text-extractor | 1 | 100.0% | 26 | free | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor cyber1nj3ct0r/pdf-text-extractor | 1 | — | 0 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF to Markdown – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX & HTML for LLM & RAG openharvest/document-to-markdown | 1 | — | 0 | $1.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF, Word & Image to Text, Markdown & Tables (OCR) cluuny/document-extractor | 1 | — | 1 | $2.00 | — | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor API - URL to Text, Per-Page, Batch gratifying_graph/pdf-extract-api | 1 | — | 3 | $20.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-01 |
| PDF Extractor API: Text, Markdown, Tables, No Login conserving_celerytop/pdf-text-extractor | 1 | — | 13 | — | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF & Document to Markdown: OCR, Tables, RAG Chunks vimplement/document-to-markdown | 1 | — | 6 | $8.00 | $0.002 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Image & Scanned PDF OCR - Extract Text from Images propped_cloak/image-ocr | 1 | — | 4 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor - Bulk PDF URLs & Datasets to Text automa-flow/pdf-text-extractor | 1 | 100.0% | 20 | — | $0.010 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF Table Extractor & PDF to Text (CSV, JSON) k09/pdf-text-tables | 1 | 100.0% | 22 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| Doc to Markdown — DOCX, PDF & web pages to clean markdown amanatools/doc-to-markdown | 1 | 100.0% | 27 | $4.00 | $0.002 | — | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF OCR API - Document Extraction alizarin_refrigerator-owner/pdf-ocr-api | 1 | 100.0% | 28 | $0.010 | $0.10 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| URL to PDF Converter lexis-solutions/url-to-pdf-converter | 1 | 100.0% | 30 | $24.90 | <$0.001 | 5.0 (1) | 2026-10-17 |
| PDF Text Extractor — Text & Metadata from URLs alaudinburki/pdf-text-extractor | 0 | 100.0% | 26 | $2.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF Layout-Preserved Text — Tables & Forms alaudinburki/pdf-layout-text | 0 | — | 17 | $3.00 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF to Markdown Converter - AI-Powered with OCR & Tables clearpath/pdf-to-markdown-api | 0 | 100.0% | 31 | $9.90 | <$0.001 | — | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF to JSON Parser parseforge/pdf-to-json-parser | 0 | 100.0% | 30 | $1,000.00 | $0.15 | 5.0 (1) | 2026-10-16 |
| PDF Proofreader gr_59017/pdf-proofreader | 0 | 100.0% | 26 | free | — | — | 2026-10-16 |
Success rate is shown only for tools with 20+ runs in 30 days; below 90% is highlighted. Prices are list prices for Apify's free plan (paid plans are cheaper). You are responsible for complying with PDF / documents's terms and applicable law. How we measure.