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PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — Scanned PDFs, Photos, Screenshots

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Extract text from PDFs and images by URL. Exact text from digital PDFs, automatic OCR (Tesseract) for scanned pages, photos and screenshots in 8 languages. Page-by-page output, ready for LLMs, search and RAG pipelines.

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from $1.60 / 1,000 ocr pages

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tidydata

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You can access the PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — Scanned PDFs, Photos, Screenshots 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.

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "files": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
14        }
15    ]
16};
17
18// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
19const run = await client.actor("tidydata/pdf-image-text-extractor").call(input);
20
21// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
22console.log('Results from dataset');
23console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
24const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
25items.forEach((item) => {
26    console.dir(item);
27});
28
29// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PDF & Image to Text OCR API — Scanned PDFs, Photos API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — Scanned PDFs, Photos, Screenshots API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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