PDF Sample File for OCR and Text Extraction

Validate OCR, text extraction, and layout-aware parsing with clean text PDFs, scan-like pages, and noisy image-based documents.

Recommended Starter File

Filename pdf_scan_like_image_sample.pdf
Size 3.7 KB
MIME application/pdf
SHA256 22a2cb26d64c293acb28531614bb127d21955dda404351cea06624ea87205109

Validation Checklist

  • Compare extracted text between scan-like, OCR-noise, and clean text PDF controls.
  • Check how tables, multi-column layouts, and multi-page reports affect text order and field extraction.
  • Verify fallback messaging when extraction quality drops on image-heavy PDF inputs.

Additional PDF Fixtures

Filename Size MIME Scarica
pdf_ocr_noise_sample.pdf 7.9 KB application/pdf Scarica
pdf_single_page_text_sample.pdf 725 B application/pdf Scarica
pdf_multi_column_report_sample.pdf 3.3 KB application/pdf Scarica
pdf_table_report_sample.pdf 716 B application/pdf Scarica

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