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Show HN: `pdf2searchablepdf` command-line tool to make PDF have searchable text

40 pointsby techie2022almost 3 years ago
Easily perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDFs. `pdf2searchablepdf input.pdf` = voila! "input_searchable.pdf" is created & now has searchable text

2 comments

ydantalmost 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing!<p>Another similar project is PDF Sandwich.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tobias-elze.de&#x2F;pdfsandwich&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tobias-elze.de&#x2F;pdfsandwich&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;d like to find one that uses AWS Textract or some other similar OCR - for my rare use-case, it&#x27;s so much better at OCR that I&#x27;m worth paying a few cents to do the OCR. Maybe Tesseract &#x2F;can&#x2F; do a better job than I&#x27;ve seen in the past, but I imagine getting it there would take an investment in time - when usually I&#x27;m OCRing one or two PDFs as part of a separate workflow, so I don&#x27;t want to distract with trying to improve the process.
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noodlesUKalmost 3 years ago
See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>
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