AI PDF Parser
Send any PDF to Excel, Google Sheets, JSON, or your API — no templates, no typing.
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What is a PDF?
A PDF is the most common business document format — invoices, contracts, statements, reports. Parsing a PDF means pulling structured fields, tables, and form values out of it into a format your tools can use, whether the source is a digital export or a scanned image.
How PDF parsing works
Three steps from a PDF in your inbox to clean rows in your tools.
Send your PDFs
Drag-and-drop, email, or POST PDFs to the API. Digital, scanned, photographed — all handled.
Parsli reads every field
Built-in OCR + multimodal AI: text, tables, form fields, and multi-page content all extracted in one pass.
Clean data lands in your tools
Export to Excel, CSV, JSON, Google Sheets, or push via webhook to your system of record.
What Parsli reads from a PDF
Every field below ships out of the box. Add custom fields anytime — Parsli reads them too.
Text & metadata
| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Page count | Number | 12 |
| Title / heading | Text | Q3 2026 Financial Report |
| Detected language | Text | en-US |
| Any text field | Text | Custom — define in schema |
Structured content
| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Tables (multi-row) | Table | Preserves rows + columns |
| Form fields | Object | Fillable PDF field values |
| Checkboxes | Boolean | true / false |
| Numbers | Number | 1,247.00 |
| Dates | Date (ISO) | 2026-03-22 |
Multi-page
| Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Header / footer | Text | Per-page extraction |
| Cross-page tables | Table | Stitched across pages |
| Page-level extraction | Array | One object per page |
Send PDF data anywhere
One-click integrations to the tools your team already uses. No middleware, no glue scripts.
Who parses PDFs with Parsli
PDFs live in different parts of the business — Parsli works for all of them.
Operations teams
Process incoming PDF reports, statements, and forms automatically — no more copy-pasting into spreadsheets.
Learn moreDevelopers
POST any PDF to the REST API and get structured JSON back. Built-in OCR means you don't need a separate preprocessing step.
Learn moreFinance & legal
Extract specific fields from contracts, statements, and tax forms without reading every page yourself.
Learn moreWhy pick Parsli for PDF parsing
Three reasons teams move off manual entry, templates, or traditional OCR.
A clerk at $25/hr enters about 6 PDFs per hour. Parsli reads thousands per hour at $0.08/page — and doesn't transpose digits at 4pm on a Friday.
Template tools (Docparser, Mailparser, Parseur) need a new template every time a sender changes their PDF layout. Parsli reads any layout on day one — nothing to maintain.
Traditional OCR gives you raw text. Parsli reads the meaning — the actual fields you care about — and outputs structured rows your downstream systems can use. See the full LLM OCR vs traditional OCR comparison.
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No demo call. No sales cycle. Drop a PDF and you'll see structured data the same minute.
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Drop your document
Email, PDF, scan, or photo — any format works.
Get clean data
Lands in QuickBooks, Xero, Excel, Google Sheets, or your API.
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Frequently asked questions
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What about multi-page PDFs?
Can I extract tables from PDFs?
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