# Extract text and OCR from a scanned PDF URL

**Use case:** 

Extract text, OCR scanned pages, and metadata from a PDF URL as JSON for RAG and document QA. Failed PDFs are free.

## Input

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-releases/2015/images/letter-from-fdr.pdf",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf"
  ],
  "maxPdfs": 25,
  "maxOcrPages": 20,
  "maxOcrPagesPerRun": 100
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ok": {
    "label": "Ok",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "pages": {
    "label": "Pages",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "version": {
    "label": "Version",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "characters": {
    "label": "Characters",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "scanned": {
    "label": "Image-only content",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "textSource": {
    "label": "Text source",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ocrPagesOcred": {
    "label": "Pages OCR'd",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ocrPagesDetected": {
    "label": "Image-only pages",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ocrTruncated": {
    "label": "OCR capped",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "mixedDocument": {
    "label": "Mixed document",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "info": {
    "label": "Info",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Text",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [PDF Text & OCR Extractor — Scanned PDF to Text API](https://apify.com/eliai/pdf-text-extractor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/eliai/pdf-text-extractor.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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