Adobe PDF Services OCR API
Apply optical character recognition to scanned PDFs to make text searchable and selectable.
Adobe PDF Services OCR API is one of 52 APIs that Adobe publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include OCR. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, a changelog, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 28 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://pdf-services-ue1.adobe.io, https://pdf-services-ew1.adobe.io, https://pdf-services.adobe.io.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Adobe PDF Services OCR API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).
bearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 access token obtained via client credentials grant from Adobe Identity Management Service (IMS). Generate credentials in the Adobe Developer Console…
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Perform OCR on a PDF File
Schemas 28
The contract defines 28 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are OCRInternal (4 properties), OCRExternal (4 properties), responseAsset (3 properties), JobStatusResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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