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OCR a scanned PDF to text, page by page

Renders each page of a PDF and reads it with Tesseract OCR: text with paragraphs, word count and confidence per page. Use it for scanned contracts, letters and archive documents that have no selectable text.

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Image to Text OCR - Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDFs
Image to Text OCR - Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDFsteddythebuilder/image-to-text-ocr
Image / PDF
Page
Text
Words
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Scanned PDF URLs:https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
Languages:eng
Max pages per PDF:2
PDF render resolution (DPI):200

Output fields

Image / PDF
Page
Text
Words
Confidence
Width
Height
Skipped / error (free)
Info

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The Image to Text OCR - Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDFs Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like scanned pdf urls, languages, and more, 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 image / pdf, page, text, 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 a scanned PDF to text, page by page" task via API.

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