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Image to Text OCR: Images & Scanned PDFs to Text (Tesseract)

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OCR text from images, screenshots and scanned PDFs by URL or from a dataset: full text, lines and words with confidence and position, 17 built-in languages plus 100+ on demand. Blank pages and failed files are free. $1.50 per 1,000 pages.

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You can access the Image to Text OCR: Images & Scanned PDFs to Text (Tesseract) 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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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "urls": [
12        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/master/testing/phototest.tif",
13        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png"
14    ],
15    "languages": [
16        "eng",
17        "deu"
18    ]
19};
20
21// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
22const run = await client.actor("best_apis/image-to-text-ocr").call(input);
23
24// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
25console.log('Results from dataset');
26console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
27const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
28items.forEach((item) => {
29    console.dir(item);
30});
31
32// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Image to Text OCR API: Scanned PDF & Screenshot OCR API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Image to Text OCR: Images & Scanned PDFs to Text (Tesseract) API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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