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Scanned PDF to text (OCR)

Read scanned PDFs and images with OCR (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch) and get plain text per page.

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PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages & Metadata from PDF (OCR)
PDF Text Extractor: Text, Pages & Metadata from PDF (OCR)fguiraud/pdf-text-extractor
Document
Status
Type
Pages
+6 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Document URLs
url:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/main/tests/resources/ccitt.pdf
What to return:text+1
OCR mode:always

Output fields

Document
Status
Type
Pages
Title
Author
Language
Characters
OCR pages
Text

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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Scanned PDF to text (OCR)" task via API.

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