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ocrmypdf

Add searchable text layer to scanned PDF files using OCR.

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Adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files

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ocrmypdf

Examples

add text layer to scanned PDF$ ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf
make PDF searchable with language specified$ ocrmypdf -l eng+fra input.pdf output.pdf
process PDF and keep only OCR text layer$ ocrmypdf --redo-ocr input.pdf output.pdf
convert image to searchable PDF with OCR$ ocrmypdf image.png output.pdf
batch process multiple scanned PDFs$ ocrmypdf *.pdf --output-type pdf && for f in *.pdf; do ocrmypdf "$f" "ocr_$f"; done