PDF Text Extractor: PDF to Text, Digital or Scanned (OCR)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 pdf processeds
PDF text extractor and PDF to text API for digital and scanned PDFs. Get plain text, one item per PDF, with a per-page array and a .txt file. Digital pages are read from the text layer; scans and images get Tesseract 5 OCR inside the Actor, no outside AI. $0.002 per PDF plus $0.005 per OCR page.
You can access the PDF Text Extractor: PDF to Text, Digital or Scanned (OCR) 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 = { "documentUrls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"] }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("brasspage/pdf-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 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 PDF Text Extractor: PDF to Text, Digital or Scanned (OCR) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: