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Scanned archive records to searchable text

Archives, court files and declassified records are usually photographs of paper - you cannot search them, quote them or paste them anywhere. This reads the pages with OCR and gives you the text back, page by page, with a confidence score on each one so you know how far to trust it. Ten languages. No API key and no cloud OCR account.

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PDF Text Extractor & OCR - Scanned PDF to Text, Tables & CSV
PDF Text Extractor & OCR - Scanned PDF to Text, Tables & CSVpractical_ophthalmologist_iuq/scanned-pdf-ocr
Record
File
Page
Pages
+13 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

PDF URLs(required):https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32204484.pdf
Languages:eng
Minimum word confidence:40
Max pages per PDF:3

Output fields

Record
File
Page
Pages
Title
Rows
Columns
Empty cells
Unreadable cells
Confidence
Mode
Header
Rows
Markdown
CSV
Page text
Note

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Create your Apify account to access the PDF Text Extractor & OCR - Scanned PDF to Text, Tables & CSV.

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.

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