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OCR API: text, confidence, paragraphs and word boxes from images and scanned PDFs for $2 per 1,000 images. Tesseract OCR by URL, optional hOCR/TSV, many languages. Unofficial OCR API.

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OCR API — Image & Scanned PDF to Text API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use OCR API — Image & Scanned PDF to Text, 100+ Languages locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

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