diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 19271c3..3030372 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ go:
 - "1.14"
 - tip
 go_import_path: code.sajari.com/docconv
+before_install:
+  - sudo apt-get -y install poppler-utils
 notifications:
   email:
     - infra@sajari.com
diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7323f29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.go
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package docconv
+
+// Config settings for doc conv
+type Config struct {
+	Limitation LenthLimitation
+}
+
+// LenthLimitation page or word limit
+type LenthLimitation struct {
+	// XMLMaxWord max word limit for xml parsing, this will effort office 2007 zip format document
+	XMLMaxWord int
+	// PdfFirstPage first page to convert for pdf
+	PdfFirstPage int
+	// PdfLastPage last page to convert for pdf
+	PdfLastPage int
+}
+
+var (
+	config Config
+)
+
+// SetConfig set configuration for docconv
+func SetConfig(c Config) {
+	config = c
+}
+
+func checkXMLMaxWord() bool {
+	return config.Limitation.XMLMaxWord > 0
+}
+
+func xmlMaxWordExceed(length int) bool {
+	return length > config.Limitation.XMLMaxWord
+}
diff --git a/docconv_test.go b/docconv_test.go
index 39eaac0..2d5d94a 100644
--- a/docconv_test.go
+++ b/docconv_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package docconv
 
 import (
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -18,3 +19,77 @@ func TestConvertTrimsSpace(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("body = %v, want %v", resp.Body, want)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestXMLMaxWord(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("max word not set", func(t *testing.T) {
+		checkMaxWord := checkXMLMaxWord()
+		if checkMaxWord != false {
+			t.Fatalf("got %v, want false", checkMaxWord)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("test checkMaxWord", func(t *testing.T) {
+		SetConfig(Config{Limitation: LenthLimitation{XMLMaxWord: 10}})
+		checkMaxWord := checkXMLMaxWord()
+		if checkMaxWord != true {
+			t.Fatalf("got %v, want true", checkMaxWord)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("test xmlMaxWordExceed", func(t *testing.T) {
+		SetConfig(Config{Limitation: LenthLimitation{XMLMaxWord: 10}})
+		exceed := xmlMaxWordExceed(10)
+		if exceed != false {
+			t.Fatalf("got %v, want false", exceed)
+		}
+		exceed = xmlMaxWordExceed(11)
+		if exceed != true {
+			t.Fatalf("got %v, want true", exceed)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("test parse pptx with maxword", func(t *testing.T) {
+		SetConfig(Config{Limitation: LenthLimitation{XMLMaxWord: 2}})
+		f, err := os.Open("./docx_test/testdata/sample_3.docx")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("got error = %v, want nil", err)
+		}
+
+		resp, _, err := ConvertDocx(f)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("got error = %v, want nil", err)
+		}
+		if want := "Content from docx file"; !strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+			t.Errorf("expected %v to contains %v", resp, want)
+		}
+		if want := "second"; strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+			t.Errorf("expected %v to not contains %v", resp, want)
+		}
+	})
+
+}
+
+func TestPDFPageLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	SetConfig(Config{Limitation: LenthLimitation{PdfFirstPage: 2, PdfLastPage: 3}})
+	f, err := os.Open("./pdf_test/testdata/pdf.pdf")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("got error = %v, want nil", err)
+	}
+
+	resp, _, err := ConvertPDF(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("got error = %v, want nil", err)
+	}
+	if want := "2"; !strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v to contains %v", resp, want)
+	}
+	if want := "3"; !strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v to contains %v", resp, want)
+	}
+	if want := "1"; strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v to not contains %v", resp, want)
+	}
+	if want := "4"; strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v to not contains %v", resp, want)
+	}
+	if want := "5"; strings.Contains(resp, want) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v to not contains %v", resp, want)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pdf_test/testdata/pdf.pdf b/pdf_test/testdata/pdf.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cf8965
Binary files /dev/null and b/pdf_test/testdata/pdf.pdf differ
diff --git a/pdf_text.go b/pdf_text.go
index 01b65f8..ff49fe2 100644
--- a/pdf_text.go
+++ b/pdf_text.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package docconv
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -54,9 +55,20 @@ func ConvertPDFText(path string) (BodyResult, MetaResult, error) {
 		mr <- metaResult
 	}()
 
+	parameters := []string{
+		"-q", "-nopgbrk", "-enc", "UTF-8", "-eol", "unix",
+	}
+	if config.Limitation.PdfFirstPage > 0 {
+		parameters = append(parameters, "-f", strconv.Itoa(config.Limitation.PdfFirstPage))
+	}
+	if config.Limitation.PdfLastPage > 0 {
+		parameters = append(parameters, "-l", strconv.Itoa(config.Limitation.PdfLastPage))
+	}
+	parameters = append(parameters, path, "-")
+
 	br := make(chan BodyResult, 1)
 	go func() {
-		body, err := exec.Command("pdftotext", "-q", "-nopgbrk", "-enc", "UTF-8", "-eol", "unix", path, "-").Output()
+		body, err := exec.Command("pdftotext", parameters...).Output()
 		if err != nil {
 			bodyResult.err = err
 		}
diff --git a/xml.go b/xml.go
index 8f422a3..9435e34 100644
--- a/xml.go
+++ b/xml.go
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ func XMLToText(r io.Reader, breaks []string, skip []string, strict bool) (string
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		// check max word limit for insufficient memory
+		if checkXMLMaxWord() && xmlMaxWordExceed(len(result)) {
+			break
+		}
 	}
 	return result, nil
 }