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kalanis77710632
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Feb 17, 2022 10:45 PM UTC
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OCR PDFs that are a mix of Text and Images?

I have some PDFs that I would like to OCR using the API, but there's already some text layers in it. The API seems to skip the entire PDF instead of OCRing the image data.

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    Joel Geraci
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    Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
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    Feb 28, 2022 6:17 PM UTC

    The best way to accomplish this is to use the Properties API to detect which pages are image only, then use the split API to pul those pages out of the PDF, send them to the OCR API, then use the Insert API to add them back to the original PDF. 

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