How to Extract Text from Scanned PDF using Make
We prepared this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots to teach you how to extract text from scanned PDF using Make.
![Screenshot of Scanned PDF](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F47907e2ee5f6ed1fb3f0bfeed6a63ad330203ced-795x411.png&w=1920&q=75)
Start by going to the Make Scenarios Interface. Click Create a New Scenario.
Step 1: Create a Google Drive module
![Screenshot of creating a Google Drive module](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F979835bbd008ab54993792615f05eb48a26c5b2e-1509x927.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 2: Choose Download a file
NOTE: For this tutorial, we’re using Google Drive as our cloud storage. You may use other cloud storage that has a similar option as this.
![Screenshot of choosing a download file](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F5d35bedac5a4dc05709d6abbc20f9f8233e6e0fd-1507x937.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 3: Set up the Google Drive module
- Select a connection for Google Drive
- For Enter a File ID combo box you can choose either Select from the list or Enter manually
- Choose My Drive as the drive to be used
- Select the folder and the file that you’re going to use
![Screenshot of setting up the Google Drive module](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F5005a32a8485ee7faf2e86af41e6ba3c14d933a3-1469x929.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 4: Create a new module for PDF.co
![Screenshot of creating a new module for PDF.co](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2Fe8369d12060993ef6b6133de6fc024f3242fbc09-1799x925.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 5: Choose Convert from PDF
![Screenshot of choosing Convert from PDF](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2Ff8e0edc4455be83adf6ca154ccef29a7575987b4-1793x927.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 6: Setup the PDF.co module
- Select a connection for PDF.co
- For Input File combo box you can either choose Upload a File or Input a File from URL
- For the Source file, you can choose either Google Drive – Download a file or Map manually
- For Convert Options choose PDF to CSV
- For the Pages, you can leave it blank if you want all of the pages to be extracted
- Set Inline to true if you want the extracted data to be displayed automatically, set it into false if you want to get a downloadable file
![Screenshot choosing file upload method for PDF.co module](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F6530d3b382d91779fd918257e70ea5fcb35f4a0b-1795x931.png&w=3840&q=75)
![Screenshot of choosing export type for the converted file](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F413e8ccf857914367b6c972b24b775636ae4b160-393x525.png&w=828&q=75)
Step 7: Run Scenario
![Screenshot of running the scenario](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F91383479091515111a51db2b8584bf7fca86ce98-1371x927.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 8: Get the output link
If there are no errors, you can now check your output link
![Screenshot of the output link](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F61a90465b5829e297c8c9c8c90a8590fdff857ff-1226x586.png&w=3840&q=75)
Step 9: Extracted text output
![Screenshot of output text](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F2niroq9z%2Fproduction%2F3d72f3e189d4ef50c57db25d1f7ddc02302532d1-612x435.png&w=1920&q=75)
In this tutorial, you’ve learned how to extract text from scanned PDFs using Make.