Image & PDF OCR — Image to Text and Scanned PDF to Text
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 page ocreds
Extract text from images and scanned PDFs with Tesseract OCR running inside the Actor: your files are never sent to a third-party OCR service. 16 languages, text per page with confidence scores, optional word boxes. $2 per 1,000 pages; blank pages and failed files are free.
You can access the Image & PDF OCR — Image to Text and Scanned PDF to Text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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