How to extract text from a scanned pdf?

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#1

Hi there,

I’m working with a scanned pdf. It doesn’t contain selectable text/images as it’s all one image. Is it possible to extract the text within the scanned image or no? I’ve tried using the UiPath pdf activities and it’s not working.

#2

Hi @Evan123 it is possible to extract the text from scanned pdf

  1. Using OCR like Google OCR etc

  2. Document understnding feature in UiPath.

U can give a try to these

Regards

Nived N

Happy Automation

#3

using ocr doesn’t work for me. It still does not recognize the text in the pdf. I’m guessing because the text is hand written? I am looking into document understanding but I am still getting the same result as of now

#4

I think if u are using document understanding , for scanned pdf you can try with Intelligent Form Extractor for extraction of data from handwritten documnets (pdf)