PDF Text & Table Extractor (JavaScript) Extract readable text and clean tables from any PDF by simply providing a URL. This Actor downloads the PDF, parses the content, and formats messy spacing so the result is easy to view, copy, or process. ## Included features * PDF fetching from a provided URL * Text extraction using pdf-parse * Cleaning & formatting to improve table readability * JSON output to Apify key-value store ## Use cases * Convert PDF content into clean text * Make tables readable for reporting or copying * Prepare data for further processing or automation * Quickly inspect PDF content without opening the file ## Input Provide the following input JSON: json { "pdfUrl": "https://assets.accessible-digital-documents.com/uploads/2017/01/sample-tables.pdf" } ## Output The Actor returns: * Full extracted text saved to: KEY_VALUE_STORE/result * Short preview in the API response Example: json { "status": "success", "extracted": "Table 1\nColumn 1 Column 2 Column 3..." } ## Getting started 1. Build the Actor in Apify Console 2. Supply a PDF URL as input 3. Run and view extracted output in the key-value store ## Local development (optional) Use Apify CLI to pull and edit locally: bash npm -g install apify-cli apify pull <ActorId> ## Dependencies * Apify SDK – actor environment & input/output handling * node-fetch – PDF downloading * pdf-parse – text extraction ## Documentation reference * Apify Actors overview * pdf-parse on npm * Apify JavaScript SDK