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I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobatAcrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.
  • Command-line and/or API. No, no GUI needed
  • I only need to support Linux, no other operating system

Optional:

  • If there is an API, Python bindings would be nice (optional)

I only need to support Linux, no other operating system. Open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too.

I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.
  • Command-line and/or API. No GUI needed
  • I only need to support Linux, no other operating system
  • If there is an API, Python bindings would be nice (optional)

I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't copy+paste the text if you look at the PDF with Acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds
  • Command-line and/or API, no GUI needed

Optional:

  • If there is an API, Python bindings would be nice

I only need to support Linux, no other operating system. Open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too.

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I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.
  • Command-line and/or API. No GUI needed
  • I only need to support Linux, no other operating system
  • If there is an API, Python bindings would be nice (optional)

I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.

I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.
  • Command-line and/or API. No GUI needed
  • I only need to support Linux, no other operating system
  • If there is an API, Python bindings would be nice (optional)
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guettli
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Create copy+pastable PDFs from scans

I have PDF files which get created from a scanner. The PDFs only contain images.

Up to now you can't to copy+paste of the text if you look at the PDF with acrobat or an other PDF viewer.

Needed features:

  • OCR: read text from the images
  • Annotate the PDF and create a hidden overlay to make text copy and pastable.
  • open source preferred, but commercial software recommendations are valid answers, too
  • Processing of one page should not last longer then 20 seconds.