Extract text from a scanned PDF
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Turn a scanned PDF into plain English text with Tesseract OCR that runs inside the Actor. Upload your PDF to the run's key-value store and list its key; you get the full text as a .txt file plus a record with page count and per-page confidence. With no file, the task reads a built-in sample page.
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The OCR Text Extractor - Image & Scanned PDF to Text Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like page layout and PDF render resolution (dpi), to match your specific use case.
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Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as index, input key, url, and more.
Integrate into your workflow
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Extract text from a scanned PDF" task via API.
For the Extract text from a scanned PDF task, upload the PDF to the run's default key-value store and list it in the Files field as {"key": "your-key"}.
The Extract text from a scanned PDF task costs $4 per 1,000 pages with readable text plus a start fee of $0.005 per run at the default 1 GB of memory; blank or failed pages have no per-page charge.
No. The Extract text from a scanned PDF task runs Tesseract inside the Actor; results go only to your run's default Apify storage.