Extract text in your language.

These pages exist because "extract text from a PDF in Python" and "parse a DOCX in Node.js" are real, distinct searches — and the honest answer is different for every language, because every ecosystem's libraries stop in a different place. Each page below names the real libraries developers already reach for, what they cover well, and exactly where they stop, then shows the same job as one txtfetch request. See also extract by format for the format-first version of the same idea, SDK & framework quickstarts for official clients and RAG-framework loaders, and solutions for the use-case view.

• Python

  Python 3.9+ · requests or httpx

  Python's parser zoo, replaced by one POST.

  pypdf, python-docx, openpyxl, extract-msg, and pytesseract — replaced by one POST.

  • pypdf
  • python-docx
  • openpyxl
  • extract-msg
  • pytesseract
  Read the Python guide →

• JavaScript

  Node.js 18+ · built-in fetch

  Four npm packages, one fetch() call.

  pdf-parse, mammoth, xlsx, and tesseract.js — one fetch() replaces the whole stack.

  • pdf-parse
  • mammoth
  • xlsx
  • tesseract.js
  Read the JavaScript guide →

• Go

  Go 1.21+ · net/http, standard library only

  The library Go's ecosystem doesn't have.

  No mainstream Office parser, OCR via cgo — one net/http call sidesteps both.

  • ledongthuc/pdf
  • unipdf (UniDoc)
  • gosseract
  • (community OOXML readers)
  Read the Go guide →

• Java

  Java 11+ · java.net.http, standard library only

  The libraries you'd reach for are already inside Tika.

  PDFBox + POI + tess4j are Tika's own building blocks — you'd be re-deriving the glue.

  • Apache PDFBox
  • Apache POI (HSSF/XSSF)
  • Apache POI (HWPF/XWPF)
  • tess4j
  Read the Java guide →

• C# / .NET

  .NET 6+ · System.Net.Http, standard library only

  Three NuGet packages, one HttpClient call.

  PdfPig or iText, plus the Open XML SDK, plus a Tesseract wrapper — or one HttpClient call.

  • PdfPig
  • iText
  • Open XML SDK
  • Tesseract (NuGet wrapper)
  Read the C# / .NET guide →