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Ranjitsinh
Ranjitsinh

Reputation: 1349

How to convert tiff to searchable pdf using alfresco and tesseact?

I want to convert *.PDF file to searchable *.PDF files using alfresco and tesseract OCR.

tesseract version 3.03 needs to be compiled and i need to generate setup of that using source code.Is there any other solution for the same. Can anyone help for the same?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2548

Answers (2)

Naman
Naman

Reputation: 2203

you can use another tool which is directly performing pdf to searchable pdf conversion.This tool is using tesseract internally for this conversion.You can find more details on below link and configure same for alfresco.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1456756

command

pdfocr -i input.pdf -o output.pdf

Upvotes: 2

nguyenq
nguyenq

Reputation: 8345

You'll need Tesseract 3.03 or later for searchable PDF output feature.

tesseract yourimage.tif out pdf

Upvotes: 4

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