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orebmur · 07-05-2021, 05:31 PM

I'd suggest to install ocrmypdf in Ubuntu, Debian, etc. I happily use it since years for my scanned books OCR needs and can only recommend it. It relies on tesseract as the OCR backend and produces excellent PDF documents from either scanned images or already existing pdf files as input.

ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

EDIT:
I wrote about it before here: mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294101

07-05-2021, 05:31 PM	#6
orebmur Veteran Linux user Posts: 150 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Barcelona/Spain Device: Boyue Likebook Note & Mimas, Hisense A5, hopefully soon a PineNote	I'd suggest to install ocrmypdf in Ubuntu, Debian, etc. I happily use it since years for my scanned books OCR needs and can only recommend it. It relies on tesseract as the OCR backend and produces excellent PDF documents from either scanned images or already existing pdf files as input. ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html EDIT: I wrote about it before here: mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294101 Last edited by orebmur; 07-05-2021 at 05:36 PM.