OCR API - Image & PDF to Text Extractor, 100+ Languages
Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 pages
OCR tool to extract text from images, screenshots, photos and scanned or digital PDFs in 100+ languages, in bulk. Image to text and PDF to text with clean output per page. No API key.
You can access the OCR API - Image & PDF to Text Extractor, 100+ Languages programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "files": [12 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc/main/images/eurotext.png",13 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/main/tests/resources/skew.pdf"14 ],15 "languages": [16 "en"17 ]18};19
20// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish21const run = await client.actor("sndzcc/image-pdf-to-text").call(input);22
23// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)24console.log('Results from dataset');25console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);26const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();27items.forEach((item) => {28 console.dir(item);29});30
31// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use OCR API - Image & PDF to Text Extractor, 100+ Languages API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: