PDF OCR
Pull selectable text out of scanned PDFs, 100+ languages.
Reads the text already in the file - instant and exact. No OCR step needed.
PDF to Text
Up to 100 MB. Deleted an hour after processing.
Any size up to 100 MB.
Instant - no recognition step, because the text is already there.
You are told plainly if the file turns out to be a scan.
This reads text already stored in the file, so it is instant and perfectly accurate. OCR recognises text from an image and is slower and approximate. Use this first; if it returns nothing, the page is a scan and OCR is the right tool.
Because the PDF has no text layer - it is a scan or an export of images. The tool tells you when that happens and points you at OCR.
Reading order is preserved but columns and tables flatten, because a PDF stores positioned glyphs rather than structure. For tables, PDF to Excel does a better job.
Exactly what is in the file, character for character. Ligatures and unusual embedded font encodings can occasionally produce odd characters, which is a property of the source PDF rather than the extraction.
Extract the text layer from a PDF instantly. This is not OCR and does not need to be: a PDF created from a document already contains its text as data, so pulling it out is immediate and character-for-character exact. OCR is for the other case - a scan, where the page is an image and the text has to be recognised approximately. Try this first, and if it comes back empty you have a scan on your hands, which the tool tells you rather than just showing an empty box.
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Pull selectable text out of scanned PDFs, 100+ languages.
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