Extract text from PDF - digital or scanned

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PDF Text Extractor & OCR - Scanned PDF to Text, Tables & CSV

Get the text out of any PDF, page by page. Digital PDFs are read from their text layer, so nothing is guessed; scanned pages go through OCR in 10 languages. Each page comes back as its own record with a word count and a confidence score. This example reads an IRS form (digital) and a declassified archive memo (scanned). No API key.

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PDF Text Extractor & OCR - Scanned PDF to Text, Tables & CSVpractical_ophthalmologist_iuq/scanned-pdf-ocr

Record

File

Page

Pages

+13 fields

Input

PDF URLs(required):https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf+1

Languages:eng

Max pages per PDF:2

Include Markdown output:true

Include CSV output:true

What to return:text

Output fields

Record

File

Page

Pages

Title

Rows

Columns

Empty cells

Unreadable cells

Confidence

Mode

Header

Rows

Markdown

CSV

Page text

Note

How it works

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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 record, file, page, and more.

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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 PDF - digital or scanned" task via API.