---
title: 'PDFLoader'
description: 'The PDFLoader class is designed to load and parse PDF files, transforming them into NeumDocument objects for further processing within the Neum AI platform.'
---

The `PDFLoader` class is part of the Neum AI data processing pipeline and is responsible for extracting text content from PDF files. It uses the `PyPDFLoader` to handle the PDF parsing and converts the data into `NeumDocument` objects.

## Properties

Required properties:
- None

Optional properties:
- None

<CodeGroup>
```python Local Development
from neumai.Loaders import PDFLoader

pdf_loader = PDFLoader()
```

```json Cloud
{
    "sources":[
        {   
            # Add a data connector
            "loader": {
                "loader_name":"PDFLoader",
                "loader_information": {}
            }
        }
    ]
}
```
</CodeGroup>