PyPDF2
A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2] (by mstamy2)
OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched (by ocrmypdf)
| PyPDF2 | OCRmyPDF | |
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| 1 | 77 | |
| 4,162 | 12,067 | |
| - | 2.7% | |
| 8.9 | 9.5 | |
| about 2 years ago | 9 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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PyPDF2
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Create PDF from a list of images
use PDF::FromImage;...my $pdf = PDF::FromImage->new;$pdf->load_images(@allPagesDir);$pdf->write_file($bookName . '.pdf'); I need to do something very similar to this, but in Python. I know the pyPdf module, but I would like something simple.
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.
- 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