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James R. Barlow
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`PDF/A <https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PDF/A>`_ file from a regular PDF
- Places OCR text accurately below the image to ease copy / paste
- Keeps the exact resolution of the original embedded images
- When possible, inserts OCR information as a "lossless" operation without rendering vector information
- Keeps file size about the same
- When possible, inserts OCR information as a "lossless" operation without disrupting any other content
- Optimizes PDF images, often producing files smaller than the input file
- If requested deskews and/or cleans the image before performing OCR
- Validates input and output files
- Processes pages in parallel when more than one CPU core is
available
- Distributes work across all available CPU cores
- Uses `Tesseract OCR <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract>`_ engine
- Supports more than `100 languages <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata>`_ recognized by Tesseract
- Battle-tested on thousands of PDFs, a test suite and continuous integration
@@ -57,12 +56,11 @@ Linux/UNIX: I found many, but none of them were really satisfying.
- 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 some of my PDF files
- Or they did not produce valid PDF files (even though they were readable with my current PDF reader)
- 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 (using various existing scripts
as an inspiration).
...so I decided to develop my own tool.
Installation
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