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		2Gkashmiri on July 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In-Browser OCR Anyone knows a PDF OCR tool? I am using a free online one. I take pictures with opennotescanner which spits out a PDF which I want searchable. Tesseracts expects PNG and outputs to text. I want the same PDF to be hidden overlaid with OCR text. This free PDF online service does a decent job but offline would be better.

eastendguy on July 31, 2021 | [–]

Free, but also online: https://ocr.space/searchablepdf

It comes with an API, so you can integrate it with your workflow.

2Gkashmiri on Aug 1, 2021 | | [–]

I tried that. Their free api is too little of use. 1MB file.

I use PDF24.org which actually does everything great.

Anything offline?

eastendguy on Aug 2, 2021 | | | [–]

Free & offline: Tesseract + pdfsandwich, see http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/

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