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sunny
sunny

Reputation: 748

Scanned Image/PDF to Searchable Image/PDF

Can anyone suggest me how to convert a scanned image into a searchable image or a scanned pdf to a searchable pdf ?
I have been stuck in this situation since quite a while now.
i have tried pdfocr application in ubuntu but no success.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9223

Answers (2)

nguyenq
nguyenq

Reputation: 8345

Tesseract version 3.03 supports creation of searchable PDF from image. For PDF, you can use GhostScript to convert it to image before sending it to Tesseract.

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Upvotes: 4

Cornelius
Cornelius

Reputation: 250

Currently, there is no right way of doing this on Ubuntu. All OCR engines output plain text and there is no way to add that text as a hidden layer on PDF over the image text.

Option 1: Use gscan2pdf which will make you a searchable PDF, but the OCRed text is placed in the top-left corner of the page, is invisible and much too small.

Option 2: Use PDF X-Change Viewer which has an option to OCR and works correctly by adding a text layer over the scanned image which is in concordance with it. You'll have to run it in wine, because it is a Windows application.

Upvotes: 1

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