PDF OCR Extractor — scanned PDFs to text (Arabic + English)
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from $5.00 / 1,000 document processeds
Turn scanned or image-only PDFs into structured text that keeps its reading order: per-block bounding boxes, per-block OCR confidence, column-aware ordering, and a spatial plain-text rendering. Arabic and English OCR built in. Pay per document plus per page.
You can access the PDF OCR Extractor — scanned PDFs to text (Arabic + English) 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.
$echo '{< "pdf_urls": [< "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/v16.0.0/tests/resources/ccitt.pdf",< "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/stable/examples/pdfs/ca-warn-report.pdf"< ]<}' |<apify call amanatools/pdf-ocr-extractor --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use PDF OCR Extractor — scanned PDFs to text (Arabic + English) locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: