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Adobe's PDF Extract API is a cloud-based service that uses Sensei AI to automatically extract text, structure, and content from PDF documents, including native and scanned PDFs. It offers two output formats: JSON for structured data (Extract PDF) and Markdown for LLМ-friendly text (PDF to Markdown), with support for preserving reading order, extracting tables (including multi-row/column spans), and extracting figures/images (tables can also be delivered as CSV/XLSX). It can be integrated via the PDFServices SDK for Node.js, Python, .NET, and Java and includes a Free Tier of 500 document transactions per month.
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Adobe PDF Extract API extracts tables with row/column spans preserved and can return structured JSON as well as CSV/XLSX representations of tables.
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Adobe PDF Extract API: A robust tool for converting native or scanned financial PDFs into usable formats while retaining structural context.

Adobe PDF Extract API: Strong for converting both native and scanned PDFs into structured data (JSON/Excel) by identifying table context.