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OCRmyPDF

Command-line tool that adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

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OCRmyPDF is a command-line tool that adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDF files while preserving the original page images. It is widely used to make scanned documents and image-based PDFs full-text searchable without changing how they look.

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