OCR Tesseract

A Docker image that adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files using PDFix SDK and Tesseract OCR.

Table of Contents

• OCR Tesseract
  • Table of Contents
  • Getting Started
  • Run using Command Line Interface
  • Run OCR using REST API
    • Exporting Configuration for Integration
  • License & libraries used
  • Help & Support

Getting Started

To use this Docker application, you'll need to have Docker installed on your system. If Docker is not installed, please follow the instructions on the official Docker website to install it.

Run using Command Line Interface

To run docker container as CLI you should share the folder with PDF to process using -i parameter. In this example it's current folder.

docker run -v $(pwd):/data/ -w /data/ pdfix/ocr-tesseract:latest ocr -i scanned.pdf -o ocr.pdf --lang eng 

With PDFix License add these arguments.

--name ${LICENSE_NAME} --key ${LICENSE_KEY}

First run will pull the docker image, which may take some time. Make your own image for more advanced use.

For more detailed information about the available command-line arguments, you can run the following command:

docker run --rm pdfix/ocr-tesseract:latest --help

Run OCR using REST API

Comming soon. Please contact us.

Exporting Configuration for Integration

To export the configuration JSON file, use the following command:

docker run -v $(pwd):/data -w /data --rm pdfix/ocr-tesseract:latest config -o config.json

License & libraries used

• PDFix SDK - https://pdfix.net/terms
• OCR Tesseract - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/

Trial version of the PDFix SDK may apply a watermark on the page and redact random parts of the PDF including the scanned image in background. Contact us to get an evaluation or production license.

Help & Support

To obtain a PDFix SDK license or report an issue please contact us at support@pdfix.net. For more information visit https://pdfix.net