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OCR scattered text: screenshots, receipts, labels (sparse)

Sparse mode is built for text scattered across a page rather than laid out in paragraphs, which is what screenshots, receipts and product labels look like. Returns the text with confidence and counts.

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OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text
OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Textscrapesage/ocr-text-extractor
File
Recognised text
Words
Chars
+2 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Image / PDF URLs:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/segmodeimg.tif
Page layout (segmentation mode):sparse

Output fields

File
Recognised text
Words
Chars
Confidence
Source

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The OCR Text Extractor - Images & Scanned PDFs to Text Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like image / pdf urls and page layout (segmentation mode), 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, recognised text, words, 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 "OCR scattered text: screenshots, receipts, labels (sparse)" task via API.

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