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OCR for low-quality scans

Read text from faint or uneven scans. Turns on black-and-white thresholding and upscaling of small images, which helps with photocopies and old documents.

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OCR: Image & Scanned PDF to Text (Spanish, English, Portuguese)
OCR: Image & Scanned PDF to Text (Spanish, English, Portuguese)isnard/ocr-image-to-text
URL
Page
Pages
Confidence
+4 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Image or PDF URLs(required):https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif
Languages:eng
Black and white thresholding:true
Upscale small images:true

Output fields

URL
Page
Pages
Confidence
Words
Text
Searchable PDF
Error

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The OCR: Image & Scanned PDF to Text (Spanish, English, Portuguese) Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like image or pdf urls, languages, and more, to match your specific use case.

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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as URL, page, pages, and more.

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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 "OCR for low-quality scans" task via API.

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