You can access the Document OCR 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

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    "documentUrls": [
12        "https://apify.com/security-whitepaper.pdf"
13    ],
14    "language": "eng"
15};
16
17// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18const run = await client.actor("valek.josef/document-ocr").call(input);
19
20// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
21console.log('Results from dataset');
22console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
23const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
24items.forEach((item) => {
25    console.dir(item);
26});
27
28// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Document OCR API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Document OCR API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Document OCR API in Python

Document OCR API through CLI

Document OCR OpenAPI definition

Document OCR API

Docling

vancura/docling

Docling document parser & converter – Convert documents into structured data without complexity. This Actor leverages the powerful Docling library to parse and transform various document formats into clean, structured outputs ready for analysis or integration.

Václav Vančura

102

5.0

PDF Extractor 2.0

jupri/pdf-extractor-2-0

💫 Extract PDF Document Contents including Metadata, Images, Pages, Tables, Attachments, etc.

cat

PDF Text Extractor

jirimoravcik/pdf-text-extractor

PDF Text Extractor allows you to extract text from PDF files. It also supports chunking of the text to prepare the data for usage with large language models.

Jiří Moravčík

613

5.0

PDF Text Extractor

sami_apify/PDF-Text-Extractor

This actor downloads PDFs from provided URLs, extracts text content from them, and saves the extracted data into an Apify dataset. It’s ideal for scraping and processing PDFs available online.