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Updated link to working version (old was to the now-closed Google Code site)
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Jim Grisham
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The newer version of TesseractTesseract (3.03 RC at the time of writing this)(3.03 RC at the time of writing this, in 2014) can do this:

  • free, opensource and cross-plarform
  • starting from version 3.03 PDF output is available
  • CLI software
  • multiple languages support
  • unfortunately, single image input, so to make a complete document, one must create a batch script to convert each page image to searchable PDF. After that PDF pages should be combined to a single PDF using tools like pdftk.

This is the command:

tesseract -l <lang> input.tif output pdf

The newer version of Tesseract (3.03 RC at the time of writing this) can do this:

  • free, opensource and cross-plarform
  • starting from version 3.03 PDF output is available
  • CLI software
  • multiple languages support
  • unfortunately, single image input, so to make a complete document, one must create a batch script to convert each page image to searchable PDF. After that PDF pages should be combined to a single PDF using tools like pdftk.

This is the command:

tesseract -l <lang> input.tif output pdf

The newer version of Tesseract (3.03 RC at the time of writing this, in 2014) can do this:

  • free, opensource and cross-plarform
  • starting from version 3.03 PDF output is available
  • CLI software
  • multiple languages support
  • unfortunately, single image input, so to make a complete document, one must create a batch script to convert each page image to searchable PDF. After that PDF pages should be combined to a single PDF using tools like pdftk.

This is the command:

tesseract -l <lang> input.tif output pdf
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The newer version of Tesseract (3.03 RC at the time of writing this) can do this:

  • free, opensource and cross-plarform
  • starting from version 3.03 PDF output is available
  • CLI software
  • multiple languages support
  • unfortunately, single image input, so to make a complete document, one must create a batch script to convert each page image to searchable PDF. After that PDF pages should be combined to a single PDF using tools like pdftk.

This is the command:

tesseract -l <lang> input.tif output pdf