n8n-nodes-pdf-ocr-parse

Extract text from scanned PDF documents using OCR — supports multiple languages and advanced tuning.

This is an n8n community node powered by PDF API Hub.

🚀 Install

1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes in n8n
2. Enter n8n-nodes-pdf-ocr-parse
3. Click Install

🔑 Setup

Sign up at pdfapihub.com → copy your API key → add to n8n credentials.

✨ Features

| Parameter | Description | |-----------|-------------| | Input Type | URL or Binary file | | Pages | all or specific ranges like 1-3,5 | | Language | English, Portuguese, Russian — or combine with + (e.g. eng+por) | | Detail Level | Text (plain text) or Words (with bounding box coordinates) | | Output Format | JSON or plain Text |

Advanced Options

| Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | DPI | Resolution for OCR processing (72–400) | | Character Whitelist | Restrict to specific characters (e.g. 0123456789) | | PSM | Page segmentation mode (auto, single block, single line, etc.) | | OEM | OCR engine mode (legacy, LSTM, or combined) |

💡 Use Cases

• Digitize archives — OCR scanned contracts, letters, and records
• Receipt processing — extract amounts from scanned receipts
• Form digitization — read data from scanned paper forms
• Legacy documents — make old scanned PDFs searchable

License

MIT