3 Feb
2023
3 Feb
'23
10:01 p.m.
On Feb 3, 2023, at 7:27 AM, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
what's your experience with using sad pdfs? Do you just live with them as they are,
or do you try to fix them and how, or do you use a workflow and get good results?
Usually I just live with them but I may use "ocrmypdf" if search
or copy-paste is unsatisfactory.
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.
I rarely print PDFs any more.