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pydigitize
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Some tiny personal programs I've written
I can relate to the document scanning issue. In my case, I digitize all documents I get on paper. For this, I've written this wrapper: https://github.com/dbrgn/pydigitize
It does the following steps:
- Scan a document with any scanner that supports SANE (ADF supported)
- Straightening and cleaning of scanned documents
- Run OCR on PDF so that it becomes searchable
- Generate PDF/A file for archival
- Add keywords to the PDF file
I've probably saved many hours with this script, even when taking into account the time it took me to write it.
Tiny projects don't always save time, but they sure are gratifying when they work as intended!
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
What are some alternatives?
kindleServer - This project serve HTML files (and a few more) saved in your computer with a UI suitable for Kindle web browser. On top of that, it include a Read Mode (thanks to ReadabiliPy) to display the text in a comfortable size without have to use the 'Article Mode' in Kindle web browser.
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)
backblaze-upload - Automatically uploads files to backblaze b2 from a folder (or s3)
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
gsend - A command-line GMail emailer written in Go
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
vaccipy - Automatisierte Impfterminbuchung für www.impfterminservice.de
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
aquinas - Simple media player for folders of music.
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
simple_grabber - Grabs images from the SimpleDesktops RSS feed.
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF