Extract text from born-digital PDFs via the text layer

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Scrape Sage

Actor

OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text

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.

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OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Textscrapesage/ocr-text-extractor

File

Type

Status

Pages

+6 fields

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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