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OCR Scanned PDF & Image to Text — Tesseract, 29 Languages

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Extract text from scanned PDFs and images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP) with Tesseract 5 OCR in 29 languages. PDF pages that already have text are read directly at a tenth of the price. Per-page text and confidence, optional word bounding boxes. $3 per 1,000 OCR pages.

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You can access the OCR Scanned PDF & Image to Text — Tesseract, 29 Languages programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "urls": ["https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/raw/main/images/eurotext.png"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("actor-forge/ocr-to-text").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

OCR API: Scanned PDF & Image to Text, 29 Languages API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OCR Scanned PDF & Image to Text — Tesseract, 29 Languages API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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