Thread: Having trouble OCR-ing a 70MB pdf file
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Old 07-17-2024, 07:30 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Lauriso View Post
Hey all, I hope this is the appropriate forum section to post this.

I have a PDF of a book I downloaded from archive.og, and have been trying to OCR it with multiple offline programs and online services, but to no avail. I always get unspecified errors and am not sure if it's to do with the file size.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Look at reply #20 for a complete workflow: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...=361912&page=2

Sorry, but give up any idea that some one-button OCR is ever going to give you a readable book from old-book scans.
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