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pdf2djvu-ocr

IMPORTANT (QUALITY) DISCLAIMER

This script is still young and the resulting .djvu files are not so good, often bigger than the original and with medium to low quality. I hope people will help me improve this. So before converting huge amount of documents do some performance/quality benchmarking.

Description

This Script follow the discussion on SuperUser to help convert from scanned PDF to DjVu+OCR.

Dependencies

• stylerc: bash output style ;
• pdfsandwich ;
• tesseract-ocr ;
• pdf2djvu.

Usage

The default behavior, i.e. call without arguments, will look for PDF files in the current working repository (glob: ./*.pdf) :

pdf2djvu-ocr

Otherwise you can specify a path

pdf2djvu-ocr /path/to/files/**/*.pdf