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Extract text from born-digital PDFs via the text layer
Born-digital PDFs already contain selectable text. Reading that layer directly is exact and far faster than rendering and recognising the page, and any page without a layer still falls back to OCR.
OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Textscrapesage/ocr-text-extractor
File
Type
Status
Pages
+6 fieldsTextNumberBooleanListObject
Input
Image / PDF URLs:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762+1
Use the PDF text layer when present:true
Output fields
File
Type
Status
Pages
Processed
Method
Confidence
Words
Text
Source
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