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doc-parsing / cli

OCRmyPDF

Capability: OCRmyPDF

Use it when

  • add a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs while preserving pages
  • prepare a PDF archive for exact text and page-level retrieval

What it solves

Not the fit when

  • does not build a cross-document search index

Install

pip install ocrmypdf

Invoke

ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf

Alternatives

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