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Ocrmypdf

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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