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PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text API

Extract the text from a PDF file. Born-digital or scanned PDFs by URL; OCR runs only when a PDF lacks a text layer. Bulk up to 50 files for RAG and document QA. $0.003 per parsed PDF today; failed URLs free.

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You can access the PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text API 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.

Python

JavaScript

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OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "url": "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf",
10    "urls": ["https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf"],
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("eliai/pdf-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Extract the text from a PDF file, including OCR API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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