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extracting-with-ocr
Use when extracting text from scanned PDFs, photographed pages, or images that have no embedded text layer. Covers OCR backends, language packs, force-OCR, and performance tuning.
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# Extracting with OCR
Use this when a document is image-based: scanned PDFs, photographed pages,
screenshots, JPEG/PNG/TIFF with text. Kreuzberg auto-OCRs raster images and
auto-detects PDFs that lack a text layer. Force it on when extraction
returned empty/garbled text from a PDF that "looks" textual.
## When to force OCR
- Extraction returned an empty `content` field, but the file opens visually.
- The PDF text layer is junk (copy-paste from a viewer produces gibberish).
- You want consistent output across mixed scanned + digital PDFs.
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