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OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text

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Extract text from images (PNG, JPG, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, GIF) and scanned PDFs with Tesseract OCR in 28 languages. Per-page text, confidence scores, optional word boxes, automatic text-layer detection for born-digital PDFs. No API key, no browser. JSON, CSV, Excel.

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You can access the OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "imageUrls": [
12        "https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/images/eurotext.png",
13        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif"
14    ],
15    "urlsFromFile": "",
16    "languages": [
17        "eng"
18    ],
19    "pageSegmentation": "auto",
20    "dpi": 200
21};
22
23// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24const run = await client.actor("scrapesage/ocr-text-extractor").call(input);
25
26// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
27console.log('Results from dataset');
28console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
29const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
30items.forEach((item) => {
31    console.dir(item);
32});
33
34// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text API in JavaScript

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