Extract Text
Extract & AnalyzeLive APIPull the text layer out of a document.
Extract Text
Pull the text layer out of a document.
or drop a file anywhere in this box · PDF
Files are processed securely and deleted after 1 hour.
Accepts
Returns
Data
Batch
Single file
Cost
10 credits
How to extract Text
Pull the existing text straight out of a born-digital PDF or document in one fast pass — no OCR guesswork, just the real characters that are already there. It's the quickest way to feed clean text into a search index, a parser, or an LLM pipeline.
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Upload your file
Drop in your PDF, or pick from your device.
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Set your options
Tune a couple of settings to get exactly the result you want.
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Download the result
Grab your extracted data right away. Files are deleted automatically after an hour.
Why Bytefuse
Everything you get with Extract Text
Fast, faithful to your document, and ready for real work — in the browser or over the API.
Fast, exact text
Reads the document's real text layer directly, so you get accurate characters in a fraction of a second.
Pipeline-ready output
Clean plain text drops straight into search indexes, parsers, and RAG or LLM ingestion with no cleanup.
Private by design
Files are encrypted in transit, used only for this request, and deleted automatically within the hour.
Automate it
Extract text from your own code with one REST call — SDKs and clear docs included.
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Prefer to automate? Call it by API.
curl -X POST https://api.bytefuse.in/analyze/text \
-H "Authorization: Bearer dt_live_••••" \
-F "file=@document.pdf" \
-F "preserve_formatting=true"Questions, answered
This tool reads existing text only. For scanned or image-only pages, use our OCR tool, which recognizes text from the pixels.
It copies the text that's already embedded in the file, so it's faster and exact — no recognition step and no accuracy trade-off.
Open Extract Text on Bytefuse, upload your PDF file, pick your options, and download the result in seconds. It works free in your browser with no signup, or through a single API call — files are automatically deleted after one hour.
Yes — it's free to try in your browser. Programmatic use through the API costs 10 credits per run.
They're encrypted in transit, processed only for your request, and automatically deleted within an hour. We never use them to train models.
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