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Jim Barlow
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To get the script usage, call: sh ./OCRmyPDF.sh -h
Main features
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- Generates a searchable PDF/A file from a PDF file containing only images
- Generates a searchable [PDF/A](https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PDF/A) file from a PDF file containing only images
- Places OCRed text accurately below the image to ease copy / paste
- Keeps the exact resolution of the original embedded images
- or if requested oversamples the images before OCRing so as to get better results
- If requested deskews and / or clean the image before performing OCR
- Validates the generated file against the PDF/A specification using jhove
- Validates the generated file against the PDF/A-1b specification using [JHOVE](http://jhove.sourceforge.net/)
- Provides debug mode to enable easy verification of the OCR results
- Processes several pages in parallel if more than one CPU core is available
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Motivation
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I searched the web for a free command line tool to OCR PDF files on linux/unix:
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 did not display correctly some escaped html characters located in the hocr file produced by the OCR engine
- Or they did not display correctly some escaped HTML characters located in the hocr file produced by the OCR engine
- Or they changed the resolution of the embedded images
- Or they generated PDF file having a ridiculous big size
- Or they crashed when trying to OCR some of my PDF files
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Press & Media
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- c't 1-2014, page 59: Detailed presentation of OCRmyPDF v1.0 in the leading german IT magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2014/1/58/)
- heise Open Source, 09/2014: Texterkennung mit OCRmyPDF (http://www.heise.de/-2356670)
- [c't 1-2014, page 59](http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2014/1/58/): Detailed presentation of OCRmyPDF v1.0 in the leading German IT magazine c't
- [heise Open Source, 09/2014: Texterkennung mit OCRmyPDF](http://www.heise.de/-2356670)
Disclaimer
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