Thread: OCRing + EPUBing my first book: Tips?
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Old 07-19-2020, 05:28 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Shohreh View Post
Incidently, if a PDF contains two layers (scanned pages as bitmaps, and OCRed text), is there an application that can extract just the text layer, so I can open it Sigli or LibreOffice?

I checked cpdf, mutool, and qpdf, but saw no obvious command, even just to list layers.
pdftotext:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext

Also, k2pdfopt, documented in the PDF forum at mobileread.
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