[COFF] Re: converting lousy scans of pdfs into something more useable

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

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On 2/3/23 10:01 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
>
> It's a python script that runs most any unix and uses
> tesseract. Its author's motivation seems similar to yours:
>
> I searched the web for a free command line tool to OCR PDF files: I found many, but none of them were really satisfying:
>      • Either they produced PDF files with misplaced text under the image (making copy/paste impossible)
>      • Or they did not handle accents and multilingual characters
>      • Or they changed the resolution of the embedded images
>      • Or they generated ridiculously large PDF files
>      • Or they crashed when trying to OCR
>      • Or they did not produce valid PDF files
>      • On top of that none of them produced PDF/A files (format dedicated for long time storage)
> ...so I decided to develop my own tool.

Nice. Off to checking out OCRmyPDF!

> I rarely print PDFs any more.

I can't seem to get away from having to highlight and mark up the stuff 
I read. I love pdf's searchability of words, but not for quickly 
locating a section, or just browsing and studying them. I can flip pages 
much faster with paper than an ebook it seems :).

-will

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