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Read the text of a scanned PDF
Created by
Matvey
Actor
OCR Text Extractor
A scan has no text layer, only pixels. This reads the characters off the page and returns text you can search, index or feed to a model.
OCR Text Extractorlergassy/ocr-text-extractor
Source
Format
Pages
OCR pages
+6 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
🖼️ Image or PDF URLs:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lergassy/apify-actor-assets/main/document-text-extractor/sample-scan.pdf
🔤 OCR language:eng
Per-page output:true
Output fields
Source
Format
Pages
OCR pages
Language
Words
Confidence
Status
Error
Text
Sign up on Apify01
Create your Apify account to access the OCR Text Extractor.
Start the run02
The Actor will start running based on the input automatically.
Receive the output03
Monitor the progress in real-time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review.
Integrate into your workflow04
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.
