text-extract-api

text-extract-api is an open-source service designed to extract readable text from a wide variety of document formats through a simple API interface. The project focuses on converting complex files such as PDFs, images, scanned documents, and office files into structured plain text that can be processed by downstream applications or language models. Instead of requiring developers to integrate multiple document parsing libraries individually, the system centralizes text extraction capabilities into a unified API that standardizes the output. The platform supports automated processing pipelines that detect file types and apply the appropriate extraction method to obtain the most accurate text representation possible. It can be integrated into document analysis systems, knowledge retrieval tools, and AI pipelines that rely on clean textual data. The architecture is designed to be lightweight and easily deployable, making it suitable for both local installations and cloud environments.