Extract text from PDF (using OCR)

Supported in: Batch

Run OCR on PDF files in a media set to extract text.

Expression categories: Media

Declared arguments

• Languages to detect - Languages to detect in the input files.
  Set<Enum<Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Azerbaijani - Cyrilic, Basque, Belarusian, and more ...>>
• Media reference - The column containing media references to PDF files in a media set.
  Expression<Media reference>
• OCR output format - Output will be an array of strings. Each entry corresponds to one page of the PDF.
  Enum<Text, hOCR>
• Scripts to detect - Scripts to detect in the input files.
  Set<Enum<Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Canadian Aboriginal, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Fraktur, Georgian, and more ...>>
• optional End page - Page range end, inclusive. Defaults to the last page in the document. Supports negative indexing.
  Expression<Integer>
• optional Error handling - Determines the behavior of the pipeline for inputs which fail to process. Fails fast by default.
  Enum<Fail fast, NULL on error>
• optional Start page - Page range start, inclusive. Defaults to the first page (1) in the document.
  Expression<Integer>

Output type: Array<String>

Examples

Example 1: Base case

Argument values:

• Languages to detect: {ENG}
• Media reference: mediaReference
• OCR output format: {TEXT}
• Scripts to detect: {ARABIC}
• End page: null
• Error handling: FAIL_FAST
• Start page: null

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