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PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — $2/1k pages · Scanned PDFs, Photos

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OCR for PDFs and images by URL: PDF to text and image to text. 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.

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You can access the PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — $2/1k pages · Scanned PDFs, Photos 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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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "files": [{ "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762" }] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("tidydata/pdf-image-text-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use PDF & Image to Text (OCR) — $2/1k pages · Scanned PDFs, Photos API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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