# Extract text from documents

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read another file format](https://meridian.online/operations/read-another-file-format).

Pull the text, tables or metadata out of PDF, Word and other documents.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-another-file-format/extract-text-from-documents>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-another-file-format)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Alteryx Designer: [`PDF to Text`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/alteryx-intelligence-suite/computer-vision/pdf-to-text.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`PDF Pages`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/frontend/src/workflow-ui/palette-data.ts) (read 2026-09-25)
- Apache Hop: [`Apache Tika`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/apache-tika.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Power Query M: [`Pdf.Tables`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data-functions) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read Document`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Text%20Processing/read_document.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read Office File`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/extensions/Operator%20Toolbox/data_access/read_word_files.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`pdf (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/pdf.py#L9) (read 2026-09-23)