# How do I parse PDFs into clean text with LlamaParse?

LlamaParse is a document parser that turns complex PDFs - tables, multi-column layouts, scanned pages - into clean Markdown or text that downstream AI and RAG pipelines can use. The typical flow is: upload a PDF, LlamaParse extracts structured text, and you get back Markdown.

TigZig publishes an open-source **Flask reference** that wraps LlamaParse as a simple upload-and-extract service, so you can self-host it or adapt it. The repo is at [https://github.com/amararun/shared-llama-parse-flask](https://github.com/amararun/shared-llama-parse-flask).

TigZig's other document tools (including Markdown-to-PDF) are listed at [https://www.tigzig.com/apis](https://www.tigzig.com/apis).

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Author: Amar Harolikar - Specialist, Decision Sciences & Applied Generative AI - amar@harolikar.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarharolikar
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