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 Motivation
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-I searched the web for a free tool to OCR PDF files on linux/unix:
-I found many, but none of them was satisfying.
-- Either they produced PDF files with misplaced text below the image (making copy/paste impossible)
+I searched the web for a free command line tool to OCR PDF files on linux/unix:
+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 changed the resolution of the embedded images
-- Or they generated PDF file having a rediculous big size
+- Or they generated PDF file having a ridiculous big size
 - 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) 
-On top of that none of them produced PDF/A files (format dedicated for long time storage / archiving)
+- On top of that none of them produced PDF/A files (format dedicated for long time storage / archiving)
 
 ... so I decided to develop my own tool (using various existing scripts as an inspiration)