OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files. It transforms image-only PDFs into searchable, selectable, and accessible documents that can be highlighted and indexed by desktop search engines.
Features:
- Embeds high-accuracy text layers using the Tesseract OCR engine
- Keeps original scanned page images intact without losing image quality
- Automatically deskews, cleans up, and corrects orientation of scanned pages
- Validates PDF/A compliance for long-term document archiving
- Batch processes multi-page documents utilizing multiple CPU cores
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