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Fire-PDF

Quickstart

This page shows the shortest path from a document URL to structured Markdown output.

What you get

Section titled “What you get”
  • Clean Markdown with headings, paragraphs, lists, and tables where possible
  • PDF support for both text-native and scanned PDFs (with OCR when needed)
  • A controllable PDF strategy: fast / auto / ocr

Minimal example

Section titled “Minimal example”
import Firecrawl from '@mendable/firecrawl-js'


const firecrawl = new Firecrawl({ apiKey: 'fc-YOUR-API-KEY' })


const doc = await firecrawl.scrape('https://example.com/file.pdf', {
  formats: ['markdown'],
  parsers: [{ type: 'pdf' }],
})


console.log(doc.markdown)

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”