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Scanned PDF OCR to Markdown
Convert scanned or image-heavy PDFs into Markdown with OpenDataLoader hybrid OCR, with a graceful fallback when the hybrid backend is unavailable
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Quick start
Call this tool from your code in three languages.
cURL
# 1) Request a presigned URL → returns { uploadUrl, storageKey }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/api/upload/presign/scanned-pdf-ocr-to-markdown' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"filename":"pdfFile.ext","contentType":"application/octet-stream","size":12345}'
# 2) PUT the file bytes directly to the presigned uploadUrl
curl -X PUT '<presigned uploadUrl>' \
--data-binary @/path/to/file.ext
# 3) Call the tool, passing the returned storageKey for each file field
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/scanned-pdf-ocr-to-markdown' \
-F 'pdfFile=uploads/2026/01/01/your-tool-1700000000000-abc123.ext' \
-F 'pages=' \
-F 'keepLineBreaks=true' \
-F 'includePageSeparators=true' \
-F 'hybridBackendUrl=' \
-F 'preferHybridOcr=false'