PDF.ai
Free tierChat with any PDF and extract data via a powerful PDF API
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Key strengths
AI-powered PDF parsing with OCR and layout detectionCustom field extraction with AI promptsIntelligent PDF splitting into sectionsREST API with no SDK requiredChat with PDFs via conversational interfaceAI Agents for document analysis and automationEnterprise-grade security with files deleted after processing
Free tier + paid plans · from $10 USD/mo
Founded 2023
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- Plans updated: Hobby plan is free forever (100 questions/month, 1 PDF upload). Pro at $10/mo (billed yearly, 1,000 questions/month, 100 uploads). Ultimate at $20/user/mo (billed yearly, unlimited). Enterprise at $30/user/mo. API plans: free tier with 200 credits/month; Starter $49/mo (3,000 credits); Pro $99/mo (10,000 credits); Scale $249/mo (30,000 credits); Growth $599/mo (100,000 credits). Usage-based pricing — pay only for what you parse.
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- Automated data extraction pipelines: Use the REST API with custom AI prompt-defined fields to extract structured data from large batches of PDFs (e.g., invoices, contracts, reports) without manual parsing logic.
- Document segmentation: Leverage intelligent PDF splitting to break large documents into labeled sections for downstream indexing or storage workflows.
- Chatbot integration: Embed the Chatbot Widget or call the API to power a document Q&A interface within your own product.
- AI Agents for workflow automation: Orchestrate multi-step document analysis tasks — extraction, summarization, and routing — using PDF.ai's AI Agents.
- OCR for scanned documents: Process scanned or image-heavy PDFs using built-in OCR and layout detection before passing content to other systems.
- Enterprise document security: Process sensitive documents at scale with the assurance that files are deleted after processing, suitable for compliance-sensitive environments.
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