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I have a PDF at https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=18mRvhK_NuoLALCvERVwzLxu2xe-Fd-Q4

When I get it’s content type, they say it’s text/html

This is my end point using Get

Posting this on browser returns resource not found. The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /parse/application/pdf

http://api.ocr.space/parse/application/pdf?apikey=KEYHERE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fuc%3Fexport%3Ddownload%26id%3D18mRvhK_NuoLALCvERVwzLxu2xe-Fd-Q4

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You used the wrong URL => For GET api calls the URL is always …/parse/imageurl - even if you want to OCR a PDF.

This link works:

https://api.ocr.space/parse/imageurl?apikey=helloworld&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fuc%3Fexport%3Ddownload%26id%3D18mRvhK_NuoLALCvERVwzLxu2xe-Fd-Q4

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I’ve been able to test PDF, however, the help info on the API is wrong. This extract below should be changed . application/PDF is wrong as represented in document

which seems to be the default for AWS) but image/png or similar for images. For PDF documents make sure the content type is not “image/pdf” but application/pdf . You can check the content type of your links for example with this MIME content type checker (external service, not from us). The OCR API

As you can see , the document instructs us to use application/PDF for PDF ocr. This needs to be corrected