// AI news · 2026-10-31 · Dev.to AI
AI Tool Reads Scanned PDFs and Extracts Text
An AI tool extracts text from PDFs, including scanned ones via OCR.
Published 2026-10-31 01:37 (Beijing time)Source Dev.to AIAuto-summarised, fact-checked against source
01Summary
It splits long pages into under-3KB rows at paragraph breaks for context compatibility. Text layers are read directly; scans use Tesseract with 91% confidence. Each page is charged once, regardless of format. Blank pages and dead links are returned as errors without cost. No external APIs or services are used.
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02Key points
- Extracts text from both text-layer and scanned PDFs via OCR.
- Splits long pages into under-3KB rows at paragraph breaks.
- Each page is charged once, with no cost for blank or dead links.
- Uses built-in pdf.js and Tesseract without external APIs.
03Source
Your AI agent can't read a scanned PDF. This gives it the text, page by page
Dev.to AI · published 2026-10-31 01:37 Beijing time
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