# spacypdfreader > A PDF to text extraction pipeline component for spaCy. ## Docs ### API Reference #### Functions > The main entry point for converting a PDF into a spaCy Doc. - [spacypdfreader.pdf_reader](https://samedwardes.github.io/spacypdfreader/reference/spacypdfreader.pdf_reader.html) #### Parsers > Built-in PDF-to-text parsers. Pass one of these to the `pdf_parser` argument of `pdf_reader`, or bring your own. - [parsers.pdfminer.parser](https://samedwardes.github.io/spacypdfreader/reference/parsers.pdfminer.parser.html) - [parsers.pytesseract.parser](https://samedwardes.github.io/spacypdfreader/reference/parsers.pytesseract.parser.html)