Is there a way to convert "photographed text" in to just "text" in a .pdf file?

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  • scantailor-universal

    ScanTailor Universal - a fork based on Enhanced+Featured+Master versions of ST

  • Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for Irfanview in this subreddit. Irfanview has lots of commands, so the instructions are very specific, and which I did trial and error on before posting. This is because Irfanview is an image processor and viewer, and PDF transformations are recent to the last couple of years. Note that you will want to run OCR after Irfanview processing, as Irfanview treats PDFs as images (which is what you have now).

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