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---
title: "pdf to txt"
tags: [ "Documentation", "data", "pdf", "ocr" ]
---
How to translate pdf book images to text (results are very poor, and will need lots of corrections).
## Dependencies
Search for 'tesseract english' (or whatever language).
Arch: tesseract-data-eng and poppler-utils
## Script
> pdftoppm -png *file*.pdf test
> for x in \*png; do
> tesseract -l eng "$x" - >> *out*.txt
> done
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- [Example script](data/pdf-to-txt.sh)