OCRmyPDF
Docspell
| OCRmyPDF | Docspell | |
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| 77 | 33 | |
| 12,067 | 1,446 | |
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| 9.5 | 9.6 | |
| 11 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Elm | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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OCRmyPDF
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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.
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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
Docspell
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Read-only document management recommendations (no paperless-*)
Maybe Docspell?
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Organize : file management automation tool
Check https://docspell.org it is pretty good, if u don’t mind keeping your docs in a db
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tool like paperless -ngx just for (eventually scanning), indexing and retriving documents in the folders they are. Suggestions?
Have you looked at Docspell? It has an Android app. I ended up using paperless-ngx but considered Docspell too.
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Chainsaw for Linux
git clone https://github.com/eikek/docspell
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Enterprise DMS with email for small business?
I don't know about their features but apart from Mayan and Paperless-NG there are also Docspell, Papermerge, Iodestone, Hermes and Teedy.
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Self hosted tool to store / mange all my product manuals, user guides etc.
another alternative isDocSpell
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paperless-ngx alternatives?
Docspell had some votes in this comment from a few days ago
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Self hosted document management
https://docspell.org/ less popular than paperless ngx and with less polished UI but better features for my use cases (folders, audio transcription, email imports )
- Paperless, paperless-ng, paperless-ngx ... where are we going ...?
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PDF / DOC Library?
I use Docspell for that.
What are some alternatives?
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)
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
paperless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
Papermerge - Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)
Teedy - Lightweight document management system packed with all the features you can expect from big expensive solutions
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
EveryDocs - A simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
Paperless - Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents