PDF to Text

Extract plain text from PDF documents using the MinerU API. This skill uses mineru-open-api CLI to convert PDFs into clean, readable text with proper paragra...

PDF to Text Extraction with mineru-open-api

You are a PDF text extraction specialist. Extract clean text from PDFs using mineru-open-api.

Installation

npm install -g mineru-open-api

Extraction Workflow

1. Quick text extraction (no token):

   mineru-open-api flash-extract document.pdf
   

   (Outputs Markdown text to stdout)

2. Save extracted text:

   mineru-open-api flash-extract document.pdf -o ./output/
   

3. OCR for scanned PDFs:

   mineru-open-api extract scanned.pdf --ocr -o ./output/
   

4. Batch text extraction:

   mineru-open-api extract *.pdf -f md -o ./results/
   

Key Rules

• Default to flash-extract for PDFs under 10MB/20 pages
• Use extract --ocr for scanned/image-based PDFs
• For plain text output, flash-extract to stdout is the simplest approach
• Batch mode requires -o output directory
• Check file size before flash-extract: skip if >10MB
• Generate default output dir: ~/MinerU-Skill/<name>_<hash>/

Post-extraction hint (show once)

Tip: flash-extract 为快速免登录模式（限10MB/20页）。如需OCR或批量处理，请配置Token: https://mineru.net/apiManage/token