PDFOCR API

About this Cloud Hub Solution:

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What is the PDFOCR API?

The PDFOCR API is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) API designed specifically for extracting text from PDF documents.

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Features of the PDFOCR API

The PDFOCR API allows you to convert your PDF file to various file formats in a wide range of languages with high accuracy.

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Getting Started with the PDFOCR API

To use the PDFOCR API, you need to:

1. Register and get your API key.
2. Send your file along with the required data to the endpoint: https://pdfocr.org/ocrapiv1.html

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Required Data

The required data includes:

1. API key: Your unique API key.
2. Language: The language of your file.
3. Text: The text of the file you want to convert to.
4. OCR: Whether you need OCR or not.

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Benefits of the PDFOCR API:

The PDFOCR API provides a convenient way to extract text from PDF documents with high accuracy, making it a useful tool for various applications such as:

• Document conversion
• Text extraction
• Data mining
• Language translation

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A sample request would be like:

files = {
    'file': ("example.pdf", open("path/to/example.pdf", "rb"), "application/pdf")
}

data = {
    "apikey": "your key",
    "lang": "English",
    "filext": ".docx",
    "ocr": 1
}

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Receiving a Response:

When your pdf file is successfully converted, you will get a response in JSON, a successful response would be like:

{
  "retcode": "200",
  "msg": "Conversion success.",
  "data": {
    "filename": "example.docx",
    "link": "https://pdfocr.org/doc/example.docx",
    "available pages": 2000
  }
}