OT: OCR / PDF Parsing

[Laura Brody]

I used pdfsandwich in a project. I set up a Raspberry Pi, found all of the
dependencies for it and wrote a script to automate it (I had over 200 files
to work on). It did OCR on the files I put in the "original" directory. If
it succeeded without errors, I moved it to a "Done" directory otherwise it
went to a "Fail" directory. It did the OCR and added the text to the file.
It wasn't perfect, but close enough for my needs.

Laura Brody

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 8:38 PM Cesar Baquerizo via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Look for pdfsandwich. That should do what you want. Lots of info at the
> site.
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> > On Jan 12, 2022, at 8:28 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > So, my question is: is anyone here successfully extracting data from
> scanned documents and if so,
> > what are you using?
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