OCR: Scanned PDF to Text & Image to Text
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 ocr pages
OCR for scanned PDFs and images (PNG, JPG, TIFF): convert PDF to text and image to text, one row per page with a confidence score. Pages with a text layer are read directly at a lower price, and blank pages are free.
You can access the OCR: Scanned PDF to Text & Image to Text 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "fileUrls": [9 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/test/main/testing/phototest.tif",10 "https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf",11 ] }12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("tidysheets/scanned-pdf-ocr").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OCR: Scanned PDF to Text & Image to Text API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: