PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools

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  • pdfsizeopt

    PDF file size optimizer

    This is missing the "pdfsizeopt" suite, that bundles statically compiled utilities to reduce size.

    Static compilation means that it will run on most Linux platforms without extra required software.

    I believe one aspect of it will remove characters from included fonts that are not used.

    It really is quite impressive.

    https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt

  • tesseract-ocr

    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

    > Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS

    How about tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)

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  • tesseract-ocr-for-php

    A wrapper to work with Tesseract OCR inside PHP.

    There’s even a library for php (https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php). Haven’t used it. I did used python Pytesseract & works fairly well.

  • Apache PDFBox

    Mirror of Apache PDFBox

    PDFBox can do this. It’s not part of the CLI but it wouldn’t be too hard to add:

    https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/5b00807463279f1002e245...

  • pdf-diff

    A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files.

    This tool might be helpful for comparing pdfs: https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff

  • pdfsam

    PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages

    I'd like to add this tool to the list: https://pdfsam.org/

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    The awesome document factory

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