OCR a scanned PDF to text – English, Dutch, German, French
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Extract text from scanned PDFs without a text layer using local Tesseract OCR. The language is detected automatically (English, Dutch, German or French), or set it yourself for more speed. One row per page with text, Markdown and OCR confidence. Example: a scanned French document. Nothing is sent to external OCR APIs.
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