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          "Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute",
          "Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix",
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        "changelog": "https://feedback.mindee.com/en/changelog",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API for security \u0026 auth (+15), transparency \u0026 trust (+13).\n\nPick Mindee API for reliability (+15), schema \u0026 documentation (+6), agent ergonomics (+11), payments \u0026 pricing (+5), maintenance \u0026 community (+32).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API | Mindee API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 65 | Mindee API +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 86 | Mindee API +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 68 | Mindee API +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 40 | Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Mindee API +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 85 | Mindee API +32 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 67 | Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **56 · C** | **61.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API | Mindee API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Adobe | Mindee |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://pdf-services.adobe.io` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-10 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 165 stars, 82k npm/wk, 58k PyPI/wk | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API.** Public OpenAPI 3.0.1 spec covering Extract, PDF to Markdown and 20 other operations. No published paid price, paid use goes through sales.\n\n**Mindee API.** Extracted data kept 12 hours by default (1 to 24 configurable), deletable on fetch, source files never stored. Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API\n\n1. Cache the access token and reuse it until it expires\n2. Budget 1 Document Transaction per 5 pages for Extract and PDF to Markdown, so 500 free transactions cover about 2,500 pages\n3. Pass `notifiers` with a callback URL instead of polling the job status\n4. Use `pdf-services-ew1.adobe.io` when documents must stay in the EU\n5. Check `/operation/pdfproperties` first, since copy-protected PDFs fail Extract with DISQUALIFIED_PERMISSIONS\n\n### Mindee API\n\n1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you\n2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute\n3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix\n4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1\n5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation\n\n## Other comparisons with Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API or Mindee API\n\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Extend API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-extend.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs LlamaParse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-llamaparse.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-mistral-ocr.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Nanonets API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-nanonets.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-reducto.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-veryfi.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-mindee.md)\n- [LlamaParse API + MCP vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-mindee.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-mistral-ocr.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Nanonets API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-nanonets.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-reducto.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-veryfi.md)\n",
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