Comparing two Apify tools for converting PDFs to Markdown, with current pricing

A comparison of two Apify actors for turning PDFs into Markdown for retrieval pipelines and LLMs is published, one being the author's own tool. The competitor, gochujang/pdf-text-extractor, has 273 users and 2,080 runs and charges a start fee plus per-PDF and per-page rates, without a stated OCR surcharge. The author's pdf-to-markdown-ocr charges $0.004 per PDF and $0.007 per OCR-processed page, with no fee for pages that already have a text layer. Using its own arithmetic, the author estimates lower costs for text-based PDFs and a 20-page scan at $0.144, and notes its benchmark covered only eight clean files. The author concludes that the choice depends on file type, volume, and whether per-page confidence scores are needed, and recommends testing on one's own files first.