PDF to CSV API
The API for extracting data from PDF documents to the CSV files.
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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ConvertAPI offers a cloud-based solution, which makes PDF to CSV conversion effortless with just a single REST-API call:
Authenticate your API call
Converting pdf to csv via REST-API is now easier than ever. Sign up for a free account to obtain your authentication secret, append it as a query string parameter to the conversion URL, and voilĂ ! You can find advanced authentication techniques in our docs.
Convert PDF to CSV using REST-API in no time!
Once you have your authentication in place, you can convert your files using application/json
, multipart/form-data
and application/octet-stream
content types.
A simple HTTP POST request using JSON would look like this:
Conversion request using cURL
You can easily convert pdf to csv with a simple cURL request. Our documentation provides more advanced cURL request techniques.
File conversion using CLI
ConvertAPI CLI allows you to convert files using our command-line file conversion utility tool. Check out CLI documentation for a detailed explanation and usage examples.
Upload the file and see how it works
You can set up the advanced conversion parameters and test the conversion result online using our interactive demo tool. It will auto-generate the code snippet for you!
Advanced PDF to CSV conversion parameters
Sets the password to open protected documents.
Set page range. Example 1-10 or 1,2,5.
Set fields separator.
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
Set the OCR language. Ask support to add your language if missing.
Values: ca da nl de es en he pl pt ru sv tr lt