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 OCRmyPDF
 ========
 
-Script aimed at performing optical character recognition (OCR) on PDF files from PDF files containing only images
+OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
 
 To get the script usage, call: ./OCmyPDF.sh -h