OCR Image to Text - Bulk Images, Screenshots & Scanned PDFs
Pricing
from $1.40 / 1,000 page reads
Reads the printed text in images, screenshots and scanned PDFs (every page) in 31 languages: clean text, confidence, and optionally every word with its box.
You can access the OCR Image to Text - Bulk Images, Screenshots & Scanned PDFs 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "urls": [10 { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif" },11 { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png" },12 ],13 "languages": [14 "eng",15 "deu",16 "fra",17 "spa",18 "por",19 "ita",20 ],21}22
23# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish24run = client.actor("afterstar/image-ocr").call(run_input=run_input)25
26# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)27print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")28for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():29 print(item)30
31# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OCR Image to Text - Bulk Images, Screenshots & Scanned PDFs API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: