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title: "Extract text and data from PDFs easily"
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description: "Use Document Automation Server to extract text and tabular data from PDFs, with intelligent OCR support for enhanced accuracy."
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# Effortless content extraction from PDF files

![Extract Pages From File Based on Text Match](@/assets/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/image73.png)

## Extract text from PDF file

This step simply extracts all the text in a PDF file. Document Automation Server (DAS) Content Extraction is intelligent enough to detect image PDF pages and OCR before extracting any text from it. The only type of files we can’t extract meaningful text from by default are the ones with font encoding. We advise users to switch OCR for these file types.![Extract Text From PDF](@/assets/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/image74.png)

| Screen Field/Button | Description                                                                            |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Start Page**      | Page number of the page you want DAS Content Extraction to start extracting text from. |
| **End Page**        | Page number of the page you want DAS Content Extraction to stop extracting text from.  |

## PDF to CSV/XLSX

This step is used to extract tabular data from PDF files. See [Extract Tabular Data From PDF](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/extract-tabular-data-from-pdf.md) for more details.

## Advanced export to CSV/XLSX

This step extracts text that appears before/after certain expressions. See [Advanced Export to csv/xlsx](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/extract-tabular-data-from-pdf/advanced-export-to-csvxlsx.md) for more details.

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## Related pages

- [Efficiently extract PDF pages using DAS](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/kingfisher-operations/extract-pages-from-pdf-file.md)
- [Explore document automation and content extraction](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/kingfisher-operations.md)
- [How to rename PDF files using barcodes and text](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/kingfisher-operations/rename-pdf-file.md)
- [Effortlessly split PDF files based on criteria](/guides/document-automation-server/content-extraction/kingfisher-operations/split-pdf-file.md)