PDF to CSV API

Extract tables from PDF documents to CSV files with password support, page range selection, optional OCR, and delimiter control.

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PDF to CSV API Overview

Extract tables from textual and scanned PDF documents to comma-separated values CSV files. The API identifies bordered and border-less tabular structures within pdf documents and extracts these tables to a list of CSV formatted files.

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Customizable Parameters

Fine-tune your automation with these powerful conversion options

File

File Supported formats: .pdf

File to be converted. Value can be URL or file content.

Password

String

Sets the password to open protected documents.

PageRange

String Default: 1-2000

Set page range. Example 1-10 or 1,2,5.

EnableOcr

Collection Default: Scanned

Enable optical character recognition(OCR). Set the property to ALL to perform OCR on all pages and Scanned to perform OCR on scanned pages if PDF contains mixed pages - text and image pages.

Values:   Scanned All None

OcrLanguage

Collection Default: en

Set the OCR language. Ask support to add your language if missing.

Values:   ar ca zh-cn zh-tw da nl en fi fa de el he it ja ko lt no pl pt ro ru sl es sv tr ua th

Delimiter

String Default: ,

Set fields separator.

StoreFile

Bool Default: False

When the StoreFile parameter is set to True, your converted file is written to ConvertAPI’s encrypted, temporary storage and made available via a time-limited secure download URL, valid for up to 3 hours. After this period, the file is permanently deleted.

When StoreFile is set to False, conversion happens entirely in-memory. The raw file bytes are streamed back in the API response without touching disk or external storage, ensuring maximum security and zero persistence so that only you can access the content.

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