Sorry for not responding sooner. The file that you attached helps me understand this question quite a bit.
The basic answer is: no, not yet, not generally. The correct way to do OCR on PDFs might be to render the page without rendering the stored text and then run OCR on the page (minus text). We're not yet doing this. As mentioned, see our wiki ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/tika/PDFParser%20(Apache%20PDFBox) for the two main options of running OCR on PDFs. On your specific test file (see code and output below) you can use option 1 for PDFs (e.g. extract inline images), and you get what you want, but this will not generalize because some PDFs can use thousands of images per page. PDFParserConfig config = new PDFParserConfig(); config.setExtractInlineImages(true); ParseContext parseContext = new ParseContext(); parseContext.set(PDFParserConfig.class, config); Parser p = new AutoDetectParser(); ContentHandler handler = new ToXMLContentHandler(); Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); Path path = Paths.get("/..../Simple-text-image.pdf"); try (InputStream tis = TikaInputStream.get(path, metadata)) { p.parse(tis, handler, metadata, parseContext); } System.out.println(handler.toString()); <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <meta name="date" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="pdf:PDFVersion" content="1.7" /> <meta name="xmp:CreatorTool" content="Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365" /> <meta name="pdf:hasXFA" content="false" /> <meta name="access_permission:modify_annotations" content="true" /> <meta name="access_permission:can_print_degraded" content="true" /> <meta name="dc:creator" content="Peter Kronenberg" /> <meta name="language" content="en-US" /> <meta name="dcterms:created" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="Last-Modified" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="dcterms:modified" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="dc:format" content="application/pdf; version=1.7" /> <meta name="xmpMM:DocumentID" content="uuid:2C3CDC87-5F9C-49B7-9E4F-0E16A7AE27BC" /> <meta name="Last-Save-Date" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="pdf:docinfo:creator_tool" content="Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365" /> <meta name="access_permission:fill_in_form" content="true" /> <meta name="pdf:docinfo:modified" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="meta:save-date" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="pdf:encrypted" content="false" /> <meta name="xmp:CreateDate" content="2020-12-31T15:08:09Z" /> <meta name="modified" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="Content-Length" content="47113" /> <meta name="pdf:hasMarkedContent" content="true" /> <meta name="Content-Type" content="application/pdf" /> <meta name="xmp:ModifyDate" content="2020-12-31T15:08:09Z" /> <meta name="pdf:docinfo:creator" content="Peter Kronenberg" /> <meta name="X-Parsed-By" content="org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser" /> <meta name="X-Parsed-By" content="org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser" /> <meta name="creator" content="Peter Kronenberg" /> <meta name="dc:language" content="en-US" /> <meta name="meta:author" content="Peter Kronenberg" /> <meta name="pdf:producer" content="Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365" /> <meta name="meta:creation-date" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="created" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="access_permission:extract_for_accessibility" content="true" /> <meta name="access_permission:assemble_document" content="true" /> <meta name="xmpTPg:NPages" content="2" /> <meta name="Creation-Date" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <meta name="resourceName" content="Simple-text-image.pdf" /> <meta name="pdf:hasXMP" content="true" /> <meta name="access_permission:extract_content" content="true" /> <meta name="access_permission:can_print" content="true" /> <meta name="Author" content="Peter Kronenberg" /> <meta name="producer" content="Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365" /> <meta name="access_permission:can_modify" content="true" /> <meta name="pdf:docinfo:producer" content="Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365" /> <meta name="pdf:docinfo:created" content="2020-12-31T20:08:09Z" /> <title></title> </head> <body><div class="page"><p /> <p>Start of text </p> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut </p> <p>labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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