diff --git a/include/tesseract/renderer.h b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
index 6f40523335..954f167367 100644
--- a/include/tesseract/renderer.h
+++ b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
@@ -106,6 +106,22 @@ class TESS_API TessResultRenderer {
     return imagenum_;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Allow the caller to choose alternate image to render with the extracted text.
+   * It must be called after BeginDocument and before AddImage methods.
+   */
+  void SetRenderingImage(Pix *rendering_image) {
+    rendering_image_ = rendering_image;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Allow the caller to specify the target rendering resolution.
+   * If not set, rendering_dpi api params will be used.
+   */
+  void SetRenderingResolution(int rendering_dpi) {
+    rendering_dpi_ = rendering_dpi;
+  }
+
 protected:
   /**
    * Called by concrete classes.
@@ -139,6 +155,16 @@ class TESS_API TessResultRenderer {
   // This method will grow the output buffer if needed.
   void AppendData(const char *s, int len);
 
+  // Renderers can call this to get the actual image to render with extracted text.
+  // This method returns:
+  //  - the rendering image set by the caller or
+  //  - the input image scaled to the rendering_dpi field if defined or
+  //  - the input image from the api otherwise
+  Pix* GetRenderingImage(TessBaseAPI *api);
+
+  // Resolution of the rendering image either set manually by the caller or with the rendering_dpi api parameter.
+  int GetRenderingResolution(TessBaseAPI *api);
+
 private:
   TessResultRenderer *next_;   // Can link multiple renderers together
   FILE *fout_;                 // output file pointer
@@ -146,6 +172,8 @@ class TESS_API TessResultRenderer {
   std::string title_;          // title of document being rendered
   int imagenum_;               // index of last image added
   bool happy_;                 // I get grumpy when the disk fills up, etc.
+  Pix *rendering_image_;       // Image to render with the extracted text
+  int rendering_dpi_;           // Resolution of the rendering_image
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp b/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
index 81cf2e24d8..a017c4ab0a 100644
--- a/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/pdfrenderer.cpp
@@ -809,9 +809,9 @@ bool TessPDFRenderer::imageToPDFObj(Pix *pix, const char *filename, long int obj
 }
 
 bool TessPDFRenderer::AddImageHandler(TessBaseAPI *api) {
-  Pix *pix = api->GetInputImage();
+  Pix *pix = GetRenderingImage(api);
   const char *filename = api->GetInputName();
-  int ppi = api->GetSourceYResolution();
+  int ppi = GetRenderingResolution(api);
   if (!pix || ppi <= 0) {
     return false;
   }
diff --git a/src/api/renderer.cpp b/src/api/renderer.cpp
index 8d4f1adc1b..bd43eb16a0 100644
--- a/src/api/renderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/renderer.cpp
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
 #  include "config_auto.h"
 #endif
+#include <allheaders.h>
 #include <tesseract/baseapi.h>
 #include <tesseract/renderer.h>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <memory>     // std::unique_ptr
 #include <string>     // std::string
 #include "serialis.h" // Serialize
+#include "tprintf.h"
 
 namespace tesseract {
 
@@ -90,13 +92,69 @@ bool TessResultRenderer::AddImage(TessBaseAPI *api) {
     return false;
   }
   ++imagenum_;
+  Pix *rendering_image = rendering_image_;
+  int rendering_dpi = rendering_dpi_;
   bool ok = AddImageHandler(api);
+  if (rendering_image_ != rendering_image) {
+    delete rendering_image_;
+    rendering_image_ = rendering_image;
+  }
+  if (rendering_dpi_ != rendering_dpi) {
+    rendering_dpi_ = rendering_dpi;
+  }
   if (next_) {
     ok = next_->AddImage(api) && ok;
   }
   return ok;
 }
 
+Pix* TessResultRenderer::GetRenderingImage(TessBaseAPI *api) {
+  if (!happy_) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+  if (!rendering_image_) {
+    Pix *input_image = api->GetInputImage();
+    int source_dpi = api->GetSourceYResolution();
+    if (!input_image || source_dpi <= 0) {
+      happy_ = false;
+      return nullptr;
+    }
+
+    int rendering_dpi = GetRenderingResolution(api);
+    if (rendering_dpi != source_dpi) {
+      float scale = (float)rendering_dpi / (float)source_dpi;
+
+      rendering_image_ = pixScale(input_image, scale, scale);
+    } else {
+      return input_image;
+    }
+  }
+  return rendering_image_;
+}
+
+int TessResultRenderer::GetRenderingResolution(tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api) {
+  if (rendering_dpi_) {
+    return rendering_dpi_;
+  }
+  int source_dpi = api->GetSourceYResolution();
+  int rendering_dpi;
+  if (api->GetIntVariable("rendering_dpi", &rendering_dpi) &&
+      rendering_dpi > 0 && rendering_dpi != source_dpi) {
+    if (rendering_dpi < kMinCredibleResolution ||
+        rendering_dpi > kMaxCredibleResolution) {
+#if !defined(NDEBUG)
+      tprintf(
+          "Warning: User defined rendering dpi %d is outside of expected range "
+          "(%d - %d)!\n",
+          rendering_dpi, kMinCredibleResolution, kMaxCredibleResolution);
+#endif
+    }
+    rendering_dpi_ = rendering_dpi;
+    return rendering_dpi_;
+  }
+  return source_dpi;
+}
+
 bool TessResultRenderer::EndDocument() {
   if (!happy_) {
     return false;
diff --git a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
index fd58ac8746..c12682ceea 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
+++ b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.cpp
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ Tesseract::Tesseract()
     , BOOL_MEMBER(textonly_pdf, false, "Create PDF with only one invisible text layer",
                   this->params())
     , INT_MEMBER(jpg_quality, 85, "Set JPEG quality level", this->params())
+    , INT_MEMBER(rendering_dpi, 0, "Scale input image resolution for rendering", this->params())
     , INT_MEMBER(user_defined_dpi, 0, "Specify DPI for input image", this->params())
     , INT_MEMBER(min_characters_to_try, 50, "Specify minimum characters to try during OSD",
                  this->params())
diff --git a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
index 732bb9e62e..398fe5861d 100644
--- a/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
+++ b/src/ccmain/tesseractclass.h
@@ -903,6 +903,7 @@ class TESS_API Tesseract : public Wordrec {
   BOOL_VAR_H(tessedit_create_pdf);
   BOOL_VAR_H(textonly_pdf);
   INT_VAR_H(jpg_quality);
+  INT_VAR_H(rendering_dpi);
   INT_VAR_H(user_defined_dpi);
   INT_VAR_H(min_characters_to_try);
   STRING_VAR_H(unrecognised_char);