Improve batch processing examples

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James R. Barlow
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Both ``parallel`` and ``ocrmypdf`` will try to use all available processors. To maximize parallelism without overloading your system with processes, consider using ``parallel -j 2`` to limit parallel to running two jobs at once.
This command will run all ocrmypdf all files named ``*.pdf`` in the current directory and write them to the previous created ``output/`` folder.
This command will run all ocrmypdf all files named ``*.pdf`` in the current directory and write them to the previous created ``output/`` folder. It will not search subdirectories.
The ``--tag`` argument tells parallel to print the filename as a prefix whenever a message is printed, so that one can trace any errors to the file that produced them.
.. code-block:: bash
parallel -j 2 ocrmypdf '{}' 'output/{}' ::: *.pdf
parallel --tag -j 2 ocrmypdf '{}' 'output/{}' ::: *.pdf
Directory trees
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This will walk through a directory tree and run OCR on all files in place, printing the output in a way that makes
.. code-block:: bash
find . --printf '%p' -name '*.pdf' -exec ocrmypdf '{}' '{}' \;
This only runs one ``ocrmypdf`` process at a time. This variation uses ``find`` to create a directory list and ``parallel`` to parallelize runs of ``ocrmypdf``, again updating files in place.
.. code-block:: bash
find . -name '*.pdf' | parallel --tag -j 2 ocrmypdf '{}' '{}'
Sample script
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