3 Feb
2023
3 Feb
'23
10:25 p.m.
On 2/3/23 10:01 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
It's a python script that runs most any unix and uses
tesseract. Its author's motivation seems similar to yours:
I searched the web for a free command line tool to OCR PDF files: I found many, but none
of them were really satisfying:
• Either they produced PDF files with misplaced text under the image (making
copy/paste impossible)
• Or they did not handle accents and multilingual characters
• Or they changed the resolution of the embedded images
• Or they generated ridiculously large PDF files
• Or they crashed when trying to OCR
• Or they did not produce valid PDF files
• On top of that none of them produced PDF/A files (format dedicated for long time
storage)
...so I decided to develop my own tool.
Nice. Off to checking out OCRmyPDF!
I rarely print PDFs any more.
I can't seem to get away from having to highlight and mark up the stuff
I read. I love pdf's searchability of words, but not for quickly
locating a section, or just browsing and studying them. I can flip pages
much faster with paper than an ebook it seems :).
-will