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| pubs | OCRmyPDF | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 77 | |
| 257 | 11,936 | |
| 0.8% | 4.3% | |
| 3.0 | 9.6 | |
| 8 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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pubs
- Minimalist way of managing academic papers?
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Terminal bibliography manager based on BibTeX
May I suggest adding an "alternatives" section to the README? You should mention at least pubs and papis.
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
What are some alternatives?
papis - Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.
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)
pluGET - 📦 Powerful Package manager which updates plugins & server software for minecraft servers
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
pdf2doi - A python library/command-line tool to extract the DOI or other identifiers of a scientific paper from a pdf file.
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
citation-file-format - The Citation File Format lets you provide citation metadata for software or datasets in plaintext files that are easy to read by both humans and machines.
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
cobib
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.