Extract documents to Markdown

Turn an existing document into clean, structured Markdown — no template needed. Send a file_url and docMaker downloads it, auto-detects its format, and parses it into Markdown you can feed into an LLM, a search index, or your own pipeline.

Supported formats

Format	How it's parsed
DOCX, PPTX	Docling
PDF (digital / text-based)	Docling
PDF (scanned / image-based)	Mistral OCR (auto-detected, or force with parsingEngine)
JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP	Mistral OCR
.eml	Mail parser (headers + body)
Markdown, plain text	Passed through unchanged
HTML	Stripped to text

PDF digital-vs-scanned detection is automatic. If auto-routing sends a scanned PDF to Mistral OCR and that call fails, it automatically falls back to Docling with OCR rather than failing the job.

Fast path for PDFs

Set fast_pdf_extraction: true to skip Docling/Mistral OCR entirely and read the PDF's embedded text layer directly — much faster and cheaper, but returns little or no text for a genuinely scanned PDF (no text layer to read). Optionally set pages (e.g. "1-3,5") to extract only specific pages. Mutually exclusive with parsingEngine.

Async, with a longer timeline than other routes

Like every docMaker document route, this returns 202 with a jobId immediately. Poll GET /jobs/{jobId} until status is processed, or set a webhook_url to get the result automatically.

Unlike this API's other routes (typically done in well under a minute), parsing a large, multi-page, or scanned document can legitimately take several minutes end-to-end. status: "created" for a few minutes on this route is expected — poll for up to ~10 minutes before treating it as a real problem, or just use webhook_url to avoid polling.

Pricing

Unlike docMaker's other routes, this isn't a fixed cost per call — it depends on the parser actually used and the page count, known only after parsing:

Parser	Cost
Docling	1 credit / 50 pages
Mistral OCR	1 credit / 10 pages
fast_pdf_extraction	1 credit / 200 pages
Email / Markdown / text / HTML	1 credit flat

Always at least 1 credit.

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