PDF Extractor Pro

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# PDF Text & Table Extractor – 100% Local OCR

Extract text and tables from both digital and scanned PDF files directly inside your browser. Everything runs locally on your device — no servers, no cloud processing, no API keys, and no data uploads.

Works completely offline after installation and OCR language data caching.

## 🔒 Privacy First

* 100% local processing
* No backend or cloud services
* No external API calls
* No account required
* No tracking
* Works offline after setup

Your PDF files never leave your computer.

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## ✨ Features

### 📄 Digital PDF Text Extraction

Extract text from standard PDFs while preserving the original reading order using PDF.js.

### 🔍 OCR for Scanned PDFs

Convert image-based PDFs into searchable text using built-in OCR.

* English OCR support
* Automatically detects scanned pages
* No manual page selection required

### 📊 Automatic Table Detection

Extract tables without manually drawing boxes or selecting regions.

Uses coordinate-based row and column grouping to detect table structures automatically.

### 📥 Multiple Export Formats

* **JSON** – Structured output with text blocks, tables, and OCR content
* **CSV** – Table data only
* **Plain Text** – Text with table rendering
* **Excel (.xlsx)** – Separate sheets for text blocks, tables, and OCR pages

### 🌐 Multiple Input Methods

#### Upload PDF Files

Process PDF documents directly from your computer.

#### Extract PDFs From Browser Tabs

Open any PDF URL in Chrome and extract its contents without downloading files manually.

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# How to Use

## Upload a PDF

1. Click the extension icon.
2. Press **Upload PDF**.
3. Select a `.pdf` file.
4. Wait while pages are processed (OCR pages usually take 2–5 seconds each).
5. Choose an export format.
6. Download the extracted results.

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## Extract From the Current Browser Tab

1. Open any PDF in Chrome.
2. Click the extension icon.
3. The **Current Tab** option becomes available automatically.
4. Click it to process the PDF directly from the active tab.

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## OCR Mode

### ON (Default)

* Scanned pages are processed with Tesseract OCR.
* Image pages are converted into searchable text.

### OFF

* Faster processing.
* Image-based pages are skipped.
* Useful when working with text-based PDFs only.

> During the first OCR run, the extension downloads the English language model (`eng.traineddata`, ~10 MB) and stores it locally. Once cached, all future OCR operations work completely offline.

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# Export Formats

### JSON

Full structured output:

```json
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "textBlocks": [],
      "tables": [],
      "ocrText": ""
    }
  ]
}
```

### CSV

Exports detected tables with separate sections for each table and page.

### Plain Text

Exports all extracted text with readable table formatting.

### Excel (.xlsx)

Creates separate worksheets for text blocks, tables, and OCR content.

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## Perfect For

* Researchers
* Students
* Accountants
* Data analysts
* Office work
* Archiving documents
* Converting scanned PDFs
* Extracting tables from reports and invoices

Fast, private, and fully local PDF text and table extraction for Chrome.