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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
macOCR
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I've just released TextShot, a *free* macOS app that makes copying text from images as easy as taking a screenshot
I love using macOCR it is a command line tool though, but I bind it to a keyboard shortcut using BetterTouchTool, although you could also use Raycast, Alfred, etc to run it
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NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
Mac only but I am a happy user and can recommend
https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
Just rediscovered the Shortcuts a couple days ago while installing it on a friend's mac.
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Introducing macOCR - a command line tool that revolutionizes how you capture text on your screen!
With just one command, you can instantly convert any text on your screen into text on your clipboard, making it easy to use in any app or program. Plus, with support for popular launcher apps like Alfred, LaunchBar, and Hammerspoon, it's never been easier to access the power of macOCR.
And if you're feeling really advanced, you can even use it to feed data into an OpenAI large language model for advanced text processing.
Upgrade your text capture game with macOCR today!
Price: $0
MRR: $0
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URL: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Pretty insane. If you don’t want to use iPhones, I made a while back macOCR which uses the same vision APIs, with a very simple CLI interface. See: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
https://github.com/schappim/macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard
- MacOCR – command line OCR app for macOS
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Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day
And if you want to invoke it from Terminal: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
- Asking Siri to hold a number in memory?
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen[1].
macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.
You could invoke the app using the likes of Alfred.app, LaunchBar, Hammerspoon, Quicksilver, Raycast etc.
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schappim/macOCR – Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
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)
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
bitbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
TRex - Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
ossdatabase - Source for ossdatabase.com
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
ping-heatmap - A tool for displaying subsecond offset heatmaps of ICMP ping latency
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
insect - High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units