Bulk OCR: images and scanned PDFs to text

Give it a list of image or PDF links. It reads each page with Tesseract and returns one result row per page: the text, a confidence score (Tesseract's own estimate, not a measure of accuracy), and optionally the lines with their positions.

Run it on the Apify Store

What it does

• A status on every page: ok, no_text, unreadable (confidence under your floor), too_big or fetch_failed with the reason. One bad file does not fail the run, and good pages are always returned.
• Images (png, jpg, tiff, bmp, webp, gif) and PDFs; PDF pages are rendered at the resolution you choose and read as images.
• English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch, alone or combined.
• A cap on pages per run (default 200), so a big list cannot surprise you. Nothing is kept after the run except your results.
• Output as plain text, lines with confidence and boxes, or paragraphs as markdown.
• Callable by AI assistants through Apify's MCP server.

Good to know

This is OCR, not vision: it reads printed text. Handwriting and low-resolution scans read poorly, and there is no table or layout analysis. Every PDF page is rendered and read as an image; an existing text layer is not used. Speed on the platform is about 2.5 seconds per page, so a 200-page run takes about 8 minutes. Up to 1,000 files and 1,000 pages per run. Up to 100 MB per file; localhost and private addresses are refused. Check important results.

Price

No tool fee yet: you pay only Apify's platform usage for your run. In our test, 54 pages of clean scans we generated ourselves (a 50-page PDF at 200 dpi and four images) cost about US$0.01 of usage.

A bug or a feature you need? Open an issue on the Store page.