OCR an uploaded PDF

You can pass ocr=true in our upload endpoint, but if you forgot to do so, you can use this endpoint to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on a document after it is uploaded without consuming additional API credits. To use this you need docId of the document.

Limitations

• Timeout Limit: 300 seconds

• File Size Limit: 50 MB

If the document has a large number of pages, the OCR process may result in a timeout error

OCR a document

POST https://pdf.ai/api/v1/ocr

To get the OCR of the PDF using docId

Headers

Name	Type	Description
X-API-Key	string	<API-Key>

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
docId*	string	Document ID obtained after uploading PDF
ocrLang	string	OCR language. Default: "eng"

200 PDF is successfully uploaded

{
    "message": "OCR applied successfully!"
}

401 Invalid API key

{
    "error": "Invalid API key"
}

400: Bad Request No API key or docId present or document is private

{
    "error": "No API key present"
}

500: Failed to apply OCR due to timeout

{ 
    "error": "Failed to apply OCR. Try again."
}