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Image & PDF OCR — Image to Text and Scanned PDF to Text

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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.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 page ocreds

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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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MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "urls": [
9        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/National_Security_Action_Memorandum_No._6_Plan_of_Reorganization_of_the_Foreign_Aid_Program_-_NARA_-_193406.jpg",
10        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Alexander_Haig_1981_memo_regarding_the_Middle_east.pdf",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("keyman98/image-pdf-ocr").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Image & PDF OCR — Scanned PDF and Image to Text API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Image & PDF OCR — Image to Text and Scanned PDF to Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

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