# Extract text from PDF (using OCR)

> Supported in: Batch, Faster

Extracts text from the pages in a PDF file with configurable OCR modes and output formats.

**Expression categories:** Media

## Declared arguments

* **Languages to detect:** Languages to detect in the input files.<br>*Set\<Enum\<Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Azerbaijani - Cyrilic, Basque, Belarusian, and more ...>>*
* **Media reference:** The column containing media references to PDF files in a media set.<br>*Expression\<Media reference>*
* **Scripts to detect:** Scripts to detect in the input files.<br>*Set\<Enum\<Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Canadian Aboriginal, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Fraktur, Georgian, and more ...>>*
* *optional* **End page:** The end of the page range (inclusive). If no value is provided, it will default to the last page.<br>*Expression\<Integer>*
* *optional* **Error handling:** Determines the behavior of the pipeline for inputs that fail to process.<br>*Enum\<FAIL, NULL>*
* *optional* **Extract method:** Choose how text is extracted. Conditional scan uses best-effort detection to scan pages with little or no digital text. Digital text extracts embedded digital text. Full-page scan scans every page.<br>*Enum\<Conditional Scan, Digital Text, Full-page Scan>*
* *optional* **Output format:** The format of the extracted text output.<br>*Enum\<HTML, Markdown, Text, hOCR>*
* *optional* **Start page:** The start of the page range. If no value is provided, it will default to the first page.<br>*Expression\<Integer>*

**Output type:** *Array\<String>*

## Examples

### Example 1: Base case

**Argument values:**

* **Languages to detect:** {`ENG`}
* **Media reference:** `mediaReference`
* **Scripts to detect:** {}
* **End page:** `End Page`
* **Error handling:** `FAIL_FAST`
* **Extract method:** `AUTO`
* **Output format:** `TEXT`
* **Start page:** `Start Page`

| mediaReference | **Output** |
| ----- | ----- |
| {"mimeType":"application/pdf","reference":{"type":"mediaSetItem","mediaSetItem":{"mediaSetRid":"ri.mio.main.media-set.a", "mediaItemRid":"ri.mio.main.media-item.a"}}} | \[ first page, second page ] |

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