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Can we extract text from Scanned PDF documents? (Not converting it to image and using OCR)

  • 20 April 2023
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I tried to extract text from scanned pdf documents, it didn’t write a single text in the text file when using PDF - Extract text action. So I need to convert it to image and extract text using OCR - image action.

Is there an alternate way to extract texts other than converting it to OCR?


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Hi @shawarma ,

You can try with same (scanned documents) in IQ BOT or Document Automation which will helps to extract the value from PDF files.

Kindly checkout the below link,

Document Automation

https://docs.automationanywhere.com/bundle/iq-bot-v6.5/page/iq-bot/topics/iq-bot/user/overview.html

 

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