Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

Posted by sde on Apr 27, 2020 4:40 PM EDT
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OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a visual recognition process that turns printed or written text into an electronic character-based file. This makes the document searchable and offers the ability to copy-paste its contents.

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