Excel

Extract text from Excel

Extract all text and data from an Excel spreadsheet.

Extracts data from all sheets, preserving structure where possible.

Options

  • sheet: Specific sheet name to extract (default: all sheets)
  • include_headers: Include column headers (default: true)
post/xlsx/to-text

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.filegraph.ai (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
  • URL: https://api.filegraph.ai/xlsx/to-text
  • Auth: API key in header X-API-Key

Query parameters

sheetstring nullable
include_headersboolean

Response

Successful Response

textstring required

Extracted text content

format_detectedstring required

Detected input format (e.g., 'pdf', 'docx', 'image')

word_countinteger required

Number of words extracted

char_countinteger required

Number of characters extracted

used_ocrboolean required

Whether OCR was used for extraction

metadataobject

Additional format-specific metadata

Example response

{
  "char_count": 892,
  "format_detected": "pdf",
  "metadata": {
    "page_count": 3
  },
  "text": "This is the extracted text from the document...",
  "used_ocr": false,
  "word_count": 150
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.