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This guide provides a quick overview for getting started with the WRITER PDFParser document loader. WRITER’s PDF Parser converts PDF documents into other formats like text or Markdown. This is particularly useful when you need to extract and process text content from PDF files for further analysis or integration into your workflow. In langchain-writer, we provide usage of WRITER’s PDF Parser as a LangChain document parser.

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Overview

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Integration details

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Setup

The PDFParser is available in the langchain-writer package:

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Credentials

Sign up for WRITER AI Studio to generate an API key (you can follow this Quickstart). Then, set the WRITER_API_KEY environment variable:
It’s also helpful (but not needed) to set up LangSmith for best-in-class observability. If you wish to do so, you can set the LANGSMITH_TRACING and LANGSMITH_API_KEY environment variables:

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Instantiation

Next, instantiate an instance of the WRITER PDF Parser with the desired output format:

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Usage

There are two ways to use the PDF Parser, either synchronously or asynchronously. In either case, the PDF Parser will return a list of Document objects, each containing the parsed content of a page from the PDF file.

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Synchronous usage

To invoke the PDF Parser synchronously, pass a Blob object to the parse method referencing the PDF file you want to parse:

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Asynchronous usage

To invoke the PDF Parser asynchronously, pass a Blob object to the aparse method referencing the PDF file you want to parse:

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API reference

For detailed documentation of all PDFParser features and configurations, head to the API reference.

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Additional resources

You can find information about WRITER’s models (including costs, context windows, and supported input types) and tools in the WRITER docs.