D(ocument)e(xtractor)adSimple

This FastAPI service extracts text content from a wide variety of document formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, EPUB, HTML, TXT, etc.) using markitdown. It returns the content as an array of strings, one for each logical page, slide, or section.

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🚀 Features

• Supports multiple document formats
• Returns page-wise content as a JSON array
• Automatically detects file type via content-type
• FastAPI + Uvicorn app, easy to deploy

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📦 Supported File Types

• PDF (application/pdf)
• DOCX / Word
• PPTX / PowerPoint
• EPUB
• HTML
• Markdown
• TXT
• CSV

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Example usage

• In OpenWebUI, configure for Document Extractor external and as url http://localhost:5000 (you can change this based on your needs)
• Locally, curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/process -H "Content-Type: application/pdf" --data-binary @file.pdf

Env

• PORT=5000
• LLM_TOKEN # You can use a LLM to read images
• LLM_MODEL # The LLM model
• LLM_URL # The URL of an OpenAI compatible provider

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🧪 Setup (with virtual environment)

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

./main.py