lk/data/pdf-to-txt.md

title	tags
pdf to txt	data pdf ocr

How to translate pdfs 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