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PDF OCR & Text Extractor: Text from PDFs, Scans and Images

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PDF, scan and image text: extract it with OCR, one row per page. Reads the text layer when present, Tesseract OCR when not. Bulk PDF to text for RAG, search and data entry. Failed pages are free.

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from $4.00 / 1,000 ocr page or images

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You can access the PDF OCR & Text Extractor: Text from PDFs, Scans and Images 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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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "urls": [
12        "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf"
13    ]
14};
15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17const run = await client.actor("lepidata/pdf-ocr").call(input);
18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
20console.log('Results from dataset');
21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
23items.forEach((item) => {
24    console.dir(item);
25});
26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PDF OCR & Text Extractor: Text from PDFs, Scans and Images API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PDF OCR & Text Extractor: Text from PDFs, Scans and Images API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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