Premium Feature - AI Vision

Scanned PDF to Markdown

OCR + Vision

Convert image-based PDFs into structured Markdown using OCR and layout-aware extraction. When regular conversion fails, AI Vision extracts text from scans, photos, and legacy documents.

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Who this is for

Teams digitizing archives

Scanned contracts, invoices, and forms that need to be searchable

AI/RAG pipelines

Legacy PDFs that need to be ingested into LLM workflows

Anyone stuck with image PDFs

When copy/paste gives you nothing, OCR is the answer

What makes scanned PDFs hard

A scanned PDF often contains no text layer—it's just images. So conversion requires:

Text recognition

OCR to extract characters from images

Layout understanding

Identify columns, headings, tables

Order reconstruction

Assemble text in readable sequence

How the pipeline works

A clear breakdown of the OCR + vision extraction process

1

Page rasterization

Convert each PDF page into a high-resolution image for processing

2

OCR / vision extraction

Detect text and confidence scores per region using AI vision models

3

Layout segmentation

Identify blocks: titles, paragraphs, lists, tables, and captions

4

Reading order inference

Handle multi-column pages and complex layouts correctly

5

Markdown synthesis

Convert detected blocks into clean Markdown output

Output modes

Choose the format that fits your workflow

Fastest

Markdown only

Clean .md file ready for use

Best for QA

Markdown + JSON annotations

Includes bounding boxes and confidence scores

RAG-ready

Per-page Markdown

Separate output per page for chunking workflows

Quality controls

Features that boost accuracy and trust

Confidence scores

Know which text extractions are high vs. low confidence

Auto de-skew & de-noise

Automatic correction for tilted or noisy scans

Suspect line highlighting

Flag low-confidence regions for manual review

Language hints

Improve accuracy by specifying document language

AI Vision for Scanned PDFs
Paid Plan Feature
50
credits/month
1-5 page PDF1 credit
6-10 page PDF2 credits
20 page PDF4 credits
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FAQ

Is this the same as normal PDF to Markdown?

No. Regular PDF conversion extracts embedded text. This tool is for scanned/image PDFs where OCR is required because there's no text layer to extract.

Can you process thousands of pages?

Yes. Use our API with async/batch workflows for high-volume processing.

How accurate is the OCR?

Our AI Vision uses advanced models that achieve 95%+ accuracy on most documents. Complex layouts, handwriting, and low-quality scans may have lower accuracy—confidence scores help you identify these cases.

Ready to unlock your scanned PDFs?

AI Vision extracts text from documents that regular converters can't handle.