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OCR PDF

Extract text from scanned documents and image-based PDFs using optical character recognition.

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How it works

1

PDF pages are converted to images using Ghostscript

2

Tesseract OCR reads text from each page image

3

Extracted text is compiled into a .txt file for download

Server Requirements

Ghostscript — Required for PDF-to-image conversion. Download from ghostscript.com
Tesseract OCR — Required for text recognition. Download from tesseract-ocr.github.io. Language packs must be installed separately for non-English languages.

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