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PDF to CSV API

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.

API Request:
Copy parameter's URL Secret Secret
Optional

String Authentication secret must be provided as a query parameter. If omitted, token must be provided.

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Copy parameter's URL Token Token
Optional

String Authentication token must be provided as a query parameter. If omitted, secret must be provided.

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Copy parameter's URL File File
Required

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

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Copy parameter's URL StoreFile Store file
Optional

Bool Store converted file on our secure server and provides download URL.

Default: False

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Copy parameter's URL FileName File name
Optional

String Converted output file name without extension. The extension will be added automatically.

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Copy parameter's URL Timeout Timeout
Optional

Integer Conversion timeout in seconds.

Default: 600

Range: 10 .. 1200

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Copy parameter's URL Async Asynchronous
Optional

Bool Run conversion job asynchronously.

Default: False

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Copy parameter's URL JobId Job ID
Optional

String Conversion job self generated UUID (RFC 4122) used for getting conversion result asynchronously. Also automatically added to WebHook url.

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Copy parameter's URL WebHook WebHook
Optional

String Set WebHook URL to call after conversion is finished. Also works for synchronous requests.

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Copy parameter's URL Password Open Password
Optional

String Sets the password to open protected documents.

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Copy parameter's URL PageRange Page Range
Optional

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

Default: 1-2000

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Copy parameter's URL Delimiter Fields separator
Required

String Set fields separator.

Default: ,

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Copy parameter's URL EnableOcr Enable OCR
Optional

Bool Enable optical character recognition(OCR).

Default: False

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Copy parameter's URL OcrLanguage OCR Language
Optional

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

Default: en

Values: ca, da, de, es, en, he, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, lt

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For conversions with the multiple file result please refer to the example