PDF file - extracting its text

Hello, community! I would like to implement a feature in my software that allows uploading a PDF file, extracting its text, and storing it in a variable. What would be the best approach to accomplish this? If using an API is the best option, which are the top available ones? Thank you in advance for your help!

Hey,
there are so many APIs…depending on what kind of pdfs you want to parse, mindee might be a good fit if it’s about parsing invoices, official documents etc. Llamaparse is also doing a good job. If you are familiar with n8n (or make), you might also build a quick workflow to parse the pdf and send the data back via webhook response.

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