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Read scanned PDF pages with OCR

Renders each page of a PDF at 300 DPI and reads it with OCR, one row per page. Use it for scanned contracts, invoices and old reports that have no text layer, in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or Polish.

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Image & Scanned PDF OCR - Extract Text from Images
Image & Scanned PDF OCR - Extract Text from Imagespropped_cloak/image-ocr
File
Page
Pages
Words
+3 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Images or PDFs(required):https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
Languages:eng
Max pages per PDF:2

Output fields

File
Page
Pages
Words
Confidence
Text
Error

How it works

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The Image & Scanned PDF OCR - Extract Text from Images Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like images or pdfs, languages, and more, 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 file, page, pages, 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 "Read scanned PDF pages with OCR" task via API.

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