# Find Scanned PDFs That Need OCR

**Use case:** 

Screen a batch of PDFs and see which are scanned images with no text layer, flagged with needsOcr instead of a silently empty result.

## Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/py-pdf/pypdf/main/resources/imagemagick-images.pdf",
    "https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf",
    "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
  ],
  "maxPdfs": 100,
  "includePageText": false,
  "includeOutline": false,
  "includeLinks": false,
  "chunkChars": 0,
  "ocr": false,
  "ocrLanguage": "eng",
  "maxOcrPages": 50,
  "passwords": []
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "PDF URL"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status"
  },
  "fileName": {
    "label": "File"
  },
  "pageCount": {
    "label": "Pages"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title"
  },
  "author": {
    "label": "Author"
  },
  "createdAt": {
    "label": "Created"
  },
  "charCount": {
    "label": "Characters"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Words"
  },
  "needsOcr": {
    "label": "Needs OCR"
  },
  "ocrPages": {
    "label": "OCR pages"
  },
  "isEncrypted": {
    "label": "Encrypted"
  },
  "hasAcroForm": {
    "label": "Form"
  },
  "linkCount": {
    "label": "Links"
  },
  "fileSizeBytes": {
    "label": "Bytes"
  },
  "errorType": {
    "label": "Error"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [PDF Text Extractor with OCR | 💵$0.005 per PDF](https://apify.com/webdata_labs/pdf-text-extractor) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/webdata_labs/pdf-text-extractor) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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