In the title compound, C(9)H(6)FNO(2), all the non-H atoms are approximately coplanar, the carb-oxy O atoms deviating by 0.0809 and -0.1279 Å from the indole plane. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into dimers which are linked via N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.680 (2) Å].