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Scanned PDF OCR: PDF & Image to Text (Bulk, 17 Languages)

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Scanned PDF OCR for PDFs and images (PNG, JPG, TIFF, WebP, BMP). Tesseract text per page with confidence scores, 17 languages. Auto mode extracts existing text layers for free and OCRs only scanned pages. $2 per 1,000 OCR pages.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 page ocreds

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Andrew Shamah

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Why this Scanned PDF OCR Actor

Cheap: $0.002 per OCR page vs $0.0025–$0.015 on comparable Actors.
Mixed PDFs: Auto mode skips paying for pages that already have text.
Per-page output with method (ocr / text-layer) and mean word confidence.
Multilingual: eng, deu, fra, spa, ita, por, nld, pol, tur, rus, ukr, heb, ara, hin, chi_sim, jpn, kor (combine several).
No third-party OCR APIs — files stay inside the Actor run.

Use cases

Make scanned contract / invoice archives searchable
Feed scans into LLM / RAG pipelines
OCR image-only PDFs found by other scrapers
Pair with PDF Text Extractor for born-digital PDFs

Input

Field	Description
`fileUrls`	PDF or image URLs (required)
`languages`	OCR languages, default `["eng"]`
`mode`	`auto` (text layer when present) or `ocr-all`
`dpi`	Render DPI for PDF pages (default 200; try 300 for small print)
`maxPagesPerFile`, `maxFiles`, `maxFileSizeMb`	Safety caps

{
  "fileUrls": ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/main/tests/resources/skew.pdf"],
  "languages": ["eng"],
  "mode": "auto",
  "maxPagesPerFile": 3,
  "maxFiles": 1
}

Example output

Field	Example
`url`	`https://example.com/scan.pdf`
`fileType`	`pdf`
`totalPages` / `ocrPages` / `textLayerPages`	`12` / `10` / `2`
`meanConfidence`	`91.4`
`wordCount`	`4210`
`text`	Full recognized text…
`pages[].method`	`ocr` or `text-layer`
`pages[].confidence`	`92.1`

{
  "url": "https://example.com/scan.pdf",
  "fileType": "pdf",
  "totalPages": 12,
  "ocrPages": 10,
  "textLayerPages": 2,
  "languages": ["eng"],
  "meanConfidence": 91.4,
  "wordCount": 4210,
  "text": "Full recognized text ...",
  "pages": [{"page": 1, "method": "ocr", "text": "...", "words": 380, "confidence": 92.1}],
  "error": null
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per page with OCR text + $0.00005 Actor start. Text-layer pages (Auto), blanks and failures are free. Cap spend with Maximum cost per run.

Tips

Default memory 1 GB; raise to 2–4 GB + concurrency 3–4 for big batches.
Handwriting is not well supported (Tesseract is for printed text).
Only process documents you have the right to use.

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