Contoso invoice

Headings, addresses, purchase order and totals in one response. Simple tables become Markdown; merged cells keep their HTML structure.

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Table excerpt

The purchase order and line items below come directly from the full output.

SALESPERSON	P.O. NUMBER	REQUISITIONER	SHIPPED VIA	F.O.B. POINT	TERMS
	PO-3333

QUANTITY	DESCRIPTION	UNIT PRICE	TOTAL
1	Test for 23 fields	1	$100.00

SUBTOTAL			$100.00
SALES TAX			$10.00
TOTAL			$110.00
PREVIOUS BALANCE			$500.00
TOTAL DUE			$610.00

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invoice Markdown

| SALESPERSON | P.O. NUMBER | REQUISITIONER | SHIPPED VIA | F.O.B. POINT | TERMS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | PO-3333 |  |  |  |  |

<table><tr><th>QUANTITY</th><th>DESCRIPTION</th><th>UNIT PRICE</th><th>TOTAL</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Test for 23 fields</td><td>1</td><td>$100.00</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">SUBTOTAL</td><td>$100.00</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">SALES TAX</td><td>$10.00</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">TOTAL</td><td>$110.00</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">PREVIOUS BALANCE</td><td>$500.00</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">TOTAL DUE</td><td>$610.00</td></tr></table>

Mistral OCR 4.1 · September 10, 2026 · Hacker demo · Capture metadata and hashes

Convert it yourself

Bash, curl and Python 3. This script prints Markdown only after validating success.

curlDemo

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
key=demo_public_key
identity=demo-example
work=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$work"' EXIT
result=$work/result
status=$(curl --silent --show-error --max-time 660 -o "$result" -w '%{http_code}' \
  "https://pdftomarkdown.dev/v1/convert" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $key" -H "Idempotency-Key: $identity" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"input":{"pdf_url":"https://pdftomarkdown.dev/samples/invoice.pdf"}}')
if [ "$status" != 200 ]; then echo "HTTP $status; keep the identity for recovery" >&2; exit 1; fi
python3 - "$result" <<'PY'
import json, sys
with open(sys.argv[1]) as response:
    result = json.load(response)
if not (isinstance(result, dict) and result.get("complete") is True
        and isinstance(result.get("markdown"), str)
        and type(result.get("pages")) is int and result["pages"] >= 0
        and isinstance(result.get("request_id"), str) and result["request_id"].strip()):
    sys.exit("Incomplete or invalid conversion response")
sys.stdout.write(result["markdown"])
PY

Or use the CLI:

terminal

npx pdftomarkdown@0.1.6 https://pdftomarkdown.dev/samples/invoice.pdf

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