Scantools for Linux - add OCR to existing PDF or create ocr'd PDF's from scans
Posted: 16 Jan 2020, 06:18
Scantools for Linux - convert to PDF with OCR
It may interest some users in the community to produce OCR'd PDF's. There are already some solutions in place for this (such as pdfbeads or pdf.py) but how about just adding OCR on the fly by processing an existing scan to PDF or just add OCR to an existing PDF?
Scantools is a set of Linux PDF/A tools with the ability to perform OCR.
Scantools
https://cplx.vm.uni-freiburg.de/scantools/
Downloads here
https://software.opensuse.org/package/scantools
Usage Examples:
Add OCR to existing PDF with ocrPDF
ocrPDF book.pdf -o bookocr.pdf
Produce OCR'd PDF from a JPG scan with image2pdf
image2pdf scan.jpg -p A4 -r fit -b -o scanocr.pdf
It may interest some users in the community to produce OCR'd PDF's. There are already some solutions in place for this (such as pdfbeads or pdf.py) but how about just adding OCR on the fly by processing an existing scan to PDF or just add OCR to an existing PDF?
Scantools is a set of Linux PDF/A tools with the ability to perform OCR.
Scantools
https://cplx.vm.uni-freiburg.de/scantools/
Downloads here
https://software.opensuse.org/package/scantools
Usage Examples:
Add OCR to existing PDF with ocrPDF
ocrPDF book.pdf -o bookocr.pdf
Produce OCR'd PDF from a JPG scan with image2pdf
image2pdf scan.jpg -p A4 -r fit -b -o scanocr.pdf