OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched (by ocrmypdf)
TextSnatcher
How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop. (by RajSolai)
| OCRmyPDF | TextSnatcher | |
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| 77 | 11 | |
| 12,067 | 1,213 | |
| 2.7% | - | |
| 9.5 | 2.8 | |
| 11 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Python | Vala | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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OCRmyPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of OCRmyPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 19 Feb 2024
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
I recommend running any such PDFs through OCRmyPDF.
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
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A better document viewer
If by "like a photocopy" you mean the file contains images of text rather than text, the MacOS viewer presumably does OCR on the images. I don't know if there's a Linux document viewer with that capability built-in, but a quick search turned up the standalone tool OCRmyPDF.
- Gibts ein (CLI) tool, das Kontrast und Helligkeit von gescannten Textdokumenten dynamisch anpasst?
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OCR for a full pdf on Neoreader
For anyone interested I solved the problem by first ocr files through the free and open source software ocrmypdf avaible here
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ELI5: why is PDF such a widespread text format, instead of a format that's actually easier to edit?
ocrmypdf is nice for stuff like that.
- Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
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massive crop and OCR newspaper
Use imagemagick to convert them to PDF and ocrmypdf to straighten and OCR. See this explanation.
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OCR pdf and just keep the OCR text
Fair enough, maybe this might work for you, it should seperate the text from image anyway and if you have Adobe acrobat it should be able delete the background too with the edit function. It may already be able to do that if you haven't tried it
TextSnatcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of TextSnatcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
- TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
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Blog(ish): So I switched to Arch for a month...
- https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher
- TextSnatcher: How to Copy Text from Images? Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.
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What are you working on [July 2022]
Thanks to Gtk4 support and packages available on macOS via homebrew. Today I was successful able to build .app for the app. You can track the progress here https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher branch 'macos-dev'
- I made a desktop popup dictionary for games and apps. It shows definitions on hover and allows you to create Anki cards.
- If you want to OCR your PDF, the fastest, easiest and less buggy tool out there is "pdfsandwich"
- TextSnatcher – An Easy to use OCR front end for GNU/Linux
- Copy Text from Images to Your Clipboard
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How can I do an OCR scan of a PDF that has human handwriting text?
You can do this from a desktop app like https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OCRmyPDF and TextSnatcher you can also consider the following projects:
PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)
normcap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
GameHub - All your games in one place
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
Replay - [WIP] Explore and watch your favorite videos
OCRmyPDF vs PaddleOCR
TextSnatcher vs normcap
OCRmyPDF vs pdfplumber
TextSnatcher vs tesseract-ocr
OCRmyPDF vs tesserocr
TextSnatcher vs PaddleOCR
OCRmyPDF vs Paperless-ng
TextSnatcher vs nixpkgs-mozilla
OCRmyPDF vs invoice2data
TextSnatcher vs GameHub
OCRmyPDF vs pdfminer.six
TextSnatcher vs Replay