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Extract text and OCR from a scanned PDF URL
Extract text, OCR scanned pages, and metadata from a PDF URL as JSON for RAG and document QA. Failed PDFs are free.
PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text APIeliai/pdf-text-extractor
URL
Ok
Pages
Version
+9 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
PDF URL:https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-releases/2015/images/letter-from-fdr.pdf
PDF URLs (bulk):https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
Max PDFs:25
Max OCR pages per PDF:20
Output fields
URL
Ok
Pages
Version
Characters
Image-only content
Text source
Pages OCR'd
Image-only pages
OCR capped
Mixed document
Info
Text
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text API.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
