ocrmypdf

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Generate a searchable PDF or PDF/A from a scanned PDF or an image of text.

Examples (6)

Create a new searchable PDF/A file from a scanned PDF or image file

ocrmypdf path/to/input path/to/output.pdf

Skip pages of a mixed-format input PDF file that already contain text

ocrmypdf --skip-text path/to/input.pdf path/to/output.pdf

Clean, de-skew, and rotate pages of a poor scan

ocrmypdf --clean --deskew --rotate-pages path/to/input.pdf path/to/output.pdf

Perform lossy optimization on a PDF without performing any OCR

ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout 0 --optimize 2 --skip-text path/to/input.pdf path/to/output.pdf

Set the metadata of a searchable PDF file

ocrmypdf --title "title" --author "author" --subject "subject" --keywords "keyword; key phrase; ..." path/to/input.pdf path/to/output.pdf

Display help

ocrmypdf --help