PDF Text Extractor — OCR for scanned PDFs (Arabic + English)
Pricing
Pay per event
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 Text Extractor — OCR for scanned PDFs (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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "pdf_urls": [12 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/v16.0.0/tests/resources/ccitt.pdf",13 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/stable/examples/pdfs/ca-warn-report.pdf"14 ]15};16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish18const run = await client.actor("amanatools/pdf-ocr-extractor").call(input);19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)21console.log('Results from dataset');22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();24items.forEach((item) => {25 console.dir(item);26});27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text Extractor — OCR for scanned PDFs (Arabic + English) API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: