OCRmyPDF is an open source command line tool , the core function is to add optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to the scanned PDF file , so that it becomes a searchable , reproducible documents . It is based on Python development , the use of Tesseract OCR engine , can accurately recognize the text in the image and embedded in the PDF , while maintaining the original document layout and image quality .
Key features include:
- Add searchable text layers to scanned PDFs, support copy and paste
- Default generation of PDF/A format that meets long-term archiving standards
- Supports text recognition in 39 languages
- Automatic correction of page skew and rotation
- Optimize PDF file size
- Supports multi-core parallel processing to enhance efficiency
- Provide debug mode to verify OCR results
This answer comes from the articleOCRmyPDF: scanned PDF into searchable text of the open source toolThe