Scanned PDF to text with OCR
Sunburst
Extract text from scanned PDFs and images (PNG, JPG, TIFF) with built-in Tesseract OCR, output as clean Markdown with page markers. OCR is English-only on this build. You only pay for pages that actually needed OCR. No paid OCR API or key required.
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Start the "Scanned PDF to text with OCR" task
The PDF to Markdown: DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, OCR & RAG Chunks Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like enable ocr for scanned pages and OCR language, to match your specific use case.
Receive the "Scanned PDF to text with OCR" output
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 title, source, format, and more.
Integrate into your workflow
The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Scanned PDF to text with OCR" task via API.
