Draft vs High: The OCR Quality Parameter Nobody Reads the Docs For
Five different places document PDF4me's OCR quality setting: the REST API and four no-code platforms. Read all five pages back to back and you'll find they're not even using the same two words for it. What the quality setting is actually deciding A scanned page, or a PDF made from a photo of a document, is just an image. There's no text underneath it for a computer to read, search, or copy. OCR…
PDF4me offers multiple ways to access its OCR quality setting, each using different terminology. The REST API requires the qualityType parameter to be set to either Draft or High. Four no-code platforms - Power Automate, n8n, Zapier, and Make - each use their own terms for the same options. Power Automate and n8n use Quality Type, with Draft as the default.
Zapier and Make use Standard or Expert, with Standard for normal PDFs and Expert for scanned or photographed documents. Additionally, n8n lists a third option, Archival, which is unclear whether it's a real quality tier or just an error in documentation. Furthermore, the response schema on some platforms includes a third value, Archival, which wasn't mentioned in the parameter table.
Lastly, the language parameter varies across platforms - full language names on the REST API and n8n, and two-letter or three-letter codes on Power Automate and Make.
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