PDF to JSON Extraction: Extract Text & Structure from PDFs

PDFs are ubiquitous but opaque. Our PDF to JSON extractor converts PDF text into structured JSON, page-by-page, all without uploading your files to any server.

How It Works

• You upload a PDF (digital, not scanned)
• The tool runs pdf.js in your browser to extract text
• Each page becomes a JSON object with page number and content
• Download the resulting JSON for processing

Output Format

{
  "pages": [
    {
      "page": 1,
      "content": "This is the text from page 1..."
    },
    {
      "page": 2,
      "content": "This is the text from page 2..."
    }
  ]
}

Limitations

• Works on digital PDFs (text selectable in PDF viewer)
• Does not support scanned PDFs (requires OCR)
• Preserves text only, not formatting or images
• Best for text-heavy documents (reports, transcripts, documents)

Next Steps After Extraction

• Use our JSON to Table tool to visualize the data
• Validate the structure with our JSON Validator
• Feed the extracted text to an LLM for summarization or entity extraction
• Store in a database for searchability