OT: OCR / PDF Parsing

[Cesar Baquerizo]

Look for pdfsandwich. That should do what you want. Lots of info at the site. 

Regards
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> On Jan 12, 2022, at 8:28 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> I have an GSA that wants data extracted from PDF documents, most of which are scanned
> documents saved as PDF; which in essence makes them images saved as PDF.
> 
> I have written code in PHP to save the PDF to PNG and extract TEXT from PNG but this is not proving
> to be reliable since lots of characters are read wrong or not read at all.
> 
> It is like pulling teeth, I want this done but do not ask me to get you "true" PDFs, the scanned
> documents is all I can get ... type of scenario.
> 
> So, my question is: is anyone here successfully extracting data from scanned documents and if so,
> what are you using?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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