Extract Text from Scanned PDFs with OCR - Bulk PDF URLs
Sumitr Mardy
Turn scanned PDFs and photographed documents into searchable text. Pages that already have a text layer are read directly; only image-only pages go through OCR, and you pay for an OCR page only when it actually recovered text. 30 OCR languages, one flat row per PDF, failed files are free.
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