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BetterRed · 10-17-2014, 05:35 PM

@mantas84 - if Calibre does not do OCR on PDF's, there's probably a good reason.

I don't know for certain, but I imagine that it might have to do with the paucity of high-quality, zero-cost, open-source OCR engines. The general consensus of people who convert books for a living seems to be that the only OCR programs worth using are commercial ones such as Abbyy Fine Reader.

This thread is worth reading ==>> Can you OCR the images inside of .pdf files?

BR

10-17-2014, 05:35 PM	#9
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,825 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@mantas84 - if Calibre does not do OCR on PDF's, there's probably a good reason. I don't know for certain, but I imagine that it might have to do with the paucity of high-quality, zero-cost, open-source OCR engines. The general consensus of people who convert books for a living seems to be that the only OCR programs worth using are commercial ones such as Abbyy Fine Reader. This thread is worth reading ==>> Can you OCR the images inside of .pdf files? BR