Extract text from two-column scanned pages

Created by

Salih Küçükkayış

Actor

Image to Text OCR — Images & Scanned PDFs, 40+ Languages

Read the text of scanned pages laid out in two columns, such as magazines, papers and reports. Tesseract keeps the reading order column by column, so paragraphs come out whole. Returns plain text, Markdown and an average confidence score.

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Image to Text OCR — Images & Scanned PDFs, 40+ Languagessaliga/image-to-text-ocr

URL

Page

Read with

Confidence

+4 fields

Input

Image or PDF URLs:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/2col.png

Languages:eng

Layout detail:text

Page layout:auto

Output fields

URL

Page

Read with

Confidence

Low confidence

Words

Text

Error

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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 two-column scanned pages" task via API.