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Store OCR'ed data in pdf #26

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DanielSwain opened this issue Apr 16, 2019 · 1 comment
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Store OCR'ed data in pdf #26

DanielSwain opened this issue Apr 16, 2019 · 1 comment

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I have OCR'ed my first set of documents with the fallback to Tesseract. It worked very well. In order for this to be most useful, OCR'ed text should be saved not only to the database but also back into the pdf. That way a user can do a Ctrl+F to find text within the document when viewing it. Have you thought about implementing this functionality?

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I see that near the bottom of this page of the Tesseract docs it says:

You can also create a searchable pdf directly from tesseract ( versions >=3.03):

The Tesseract parser is launched in the pdf_parser.py code. Looks like a change here would provide for saving searchable pdfs.

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