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title: "pdf to txt"
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tags: [ "Documentation", "data", "pdf", "ocr" ]
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---
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How to translate pdf book images to text (results are very poor, and will need lots of corrections).
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## Dependencies
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Search for 'tesseract english' (or whatever language).
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Arch: tesseract-data-eng and poppler-utils
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## Script
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> pdftoppm -png *file*.pdf test
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> for x in \*png; do
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> tesseract -l eng "$x" - >> *out*.txt
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> done
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2022-09-12 21:01:54 +00:00
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- [Example script](data/pdf-to-txt.sh)
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