Convert PDF to JSON.

Typed blocks — heading, paragraph, list item — with page numbers and bounding boxes, extracted entirely on your device.

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How PDF to JSON extraction works

  1. Select your PDF — parsed locally — never uploaded, which matters when the document feeds an internal pipeline.
  2. Content becomes typed blocks — each heading, paragraph, and list item becomes a JSON object with its text, type, heading level, page number, and bounding box.
  3. Download or copy the .json — pretty-printed and ready to feed to scripts, ETL pipelines, or an LLM.

The JSON includes coordinates (bounding boxes in PDF points) for every block, so downstream code can reason about layout — not just text. It runs on the same in-browser engine as our PDF merger, PDF splitter, and PDF to Markdown converter — the file never leaves your machine.

PDF to JSON, honestly answered

A top-level object with source, pages, page_sizes, and a blocks array. Each block has type (heading | paragraph | list_item), text, level for headings, page, and bbox [x0, top, x1, bottom] in PDF points.
No. Extraction runs entirely in your browser — documents headed for data pipelines are often the confidential kind.
Not as table objects — table text comes through as positioned blocks with bounding boxes, which your code can regroup. For spreadsheet-style extraction, try our PDF to Excel tool.
No — scans have no text layer. Run the PDF through our OCR tool first, then extract.
Yes — free, no account, no page limit.
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