You can access the PDF to Text & OCR: Scanned PDF, DOCX to Markdown 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

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 = {
9    "urls": [
10        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mozilla/pdf.js/v5.4.296/test/pdfs/tracemonkey.pdf",
11        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/naptha/tesseract.js/v5.1.1/tests/assets/images/testocr.png",
12        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/poi/REL_5_4_1/test-data/document/heading123.docx",
13    ],
14    "base64Files": [],
15    "ocrMode": "auto",
16    "ocrLanguages": ["eng"],
17    "maxOcrPagesPerDocument": 50,
18    "pageRange": "",
19    "maxPagesPerDocument": 200,
20    "pdfPassword": "",
21    "includeText": True,
22    "includePages": False,
23    "extractTables": True,
24    "chunking": False,
25    "chunkSize": 2000,
26    "chunkOverlap": 200,
27    "maxFileSizeMb": 50,
28}
29
30# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
31run = client.actor("khalilbenali/pdf-to-text-ocr-markdown").call(run_input=run_input)
32
33# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
34print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
35for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
36    print(item)
37
38# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

PDF to Text & OCR API: Scans, DOCX, XLSX to Markdown API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

PDF to Text & OCR: Scanned PDF, DOCX to Markdown API in JavaScript

PDF to Text & OCR: Scanned PDF, DOCX to Markdown API through CLI

PDF to Text & OCR: Scanned PDF, DOCX to Markdown OpenAPI definition

PDF to Text & OCR: Scanned PDF, DOCX to Markdown API

Pdf Text Extractor Pro

dainty_screw/pdf-text-extractor-pro

PDF Text Extractor lets you quickly extract text from PDF files with high accuracy. Supports text chunking for AI, chatbots, and large language models (LLMs), making PDF-to-text conversion fast, clean, and ready for NLP or machine learning.

codemaster devops

5.0

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PDF Text Extractor — Text, Markdown, Tables and OCR

lergassy/pdf-text-extractor

[$0.003/PDF] Extract text from PDF files by URL, upload or base64: full text, per-page text, Markdown, tables and metadata. Scanned pages are read with OCR in 19 languages. Password PDFs, page ranges, RAG chunks. No fee per run.

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Bulk Pdf To Json OCR

gagandeo/bulk-pdf-to-json-ocr

Convert PDF invoices, menus, images with text and documents into structured JSON. Features hybrid Digital+OCR parsing and AI-powered data extraction.

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Bulk OCR: Image & Scanned PDF to Text from CSV or Google Sheet

nerolabs/bulk-ocr-image-pdf-to-text

OCR every image and scanned PDF linked in an Apify dataset, CSV, Excel or Google Sheet, keeping your columns. Inputs: datasetId or fileUrl or fileUrls, urlField, languages. Adds text, confidence and page counts. Tesseract inside the run, no outside service. Charged per page. Agent-ready: x402, MCP.

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PDF to Markdown RAG-Ready

hedelka/pdf-to-markdown-rag

Premium PDF scraper that preserves tables and structure. Optimized for RAG.

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PDF Text Extractor: OCR & Metadata

maximedupre/pdf-to-text-ocr

Extract text from public PDF URLs, including scanned pages with OCR. Choose page ranges and get plain text, Markdown, page details, OCR information, metadata, bookmarks, and page-tagged chunks when available in your dataset.

Maxime Dupré

PDF URL to Markdown, Tables & RAG Extractor

thescrapelab/Apify-PDF-url-scraper

Extract clean Markdown, page text, tables, metadata, summaries, and AI-ready RAG chunks from PDF URLs.

Inus Grobler

PDF to Markdown & JSON Converter (Docling)

actorzlab/docling-pdf-converter

Convert PDF documents to clean Markdown, structured JSON, and plain text using IBM's open-source Docling AI. Handles text PDFs and scanned documents (OCR), extracts tables and images. No external API key required — runs fully on-device.

Khalil Drissi

Pdf To Jpg Converter

programmersoham/pdf-to-jpg-converter

Convert PDF documents into high-quality JPEG images. Supports batch processing, customizable resolution (72-300 DPI), page ranges, and flexible output (URLs, ZIP, or both). Perfect for web developers, content creators, e-commerce, education, and marketing teams.

Soham Purohit

PDF Text Extractor: tables, OCR, Markdown, JSON per page

brenton8907/pdf-text-table-ocr-extractor

Extract source-aware per-page text, conservative tables as CSV/Excel-ready rows, metadata, and OCR for scanned PDF pages with confidence scores. Text spacing and reading order depend on the PDF's embedded text layer. Pay per page, no per-file fee.