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OCR a scanned PDF to text
Turn a scanned PDF into searchable text, one row per page with a confidence score. The example is a public-domain US government memo; replace the URL with your own PDF.
Image & PDF OCR — Image to Text and Scanned PDF to Textkeyman98/image-pdf-ocr
URL
Type
Page
Pages
+4 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
Image/PDF URLs(required):https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Alexander_Haig_1981_memo_regarding_the_Middle_east.pdf
Languages:eng
Max pages per document:20
Output fields
URL
Type
Page
Pages
Text
Confidence
Words
Error
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Start the run02
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Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
