Turn a scanned PDF into text with OCR
Reads pages 1 to 15 of a scanned Dutch book from Wikimedia Commons with Tesseract OCR and returns one row per page with its text, word count and OCR confidence, plus Markdown. Paste your own PDF or image links and choose from 124 OCR languages. Pages with their own text are read directly and cost less, and blank or unreadable pages are free.
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