OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OCRmyPDF 15.0 Released For Optical Character Recognition Of PDF Files

A major update to OCRmyPDF is now available, the open-source project that can work on scanned PDFs and other PDF documents to add an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to files for allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF makes it a breeze in dealing with scanned PDF text files and now with OCRmyPDF v15 is even better...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OCRmyPDF-15

[microcode]

This thing is fantastic, turns garbage document scans into something approximately usable.

[sabriah]

A decade ago tesseract and other OCR tools were essential to me. Somehow that has changed so it is rare for me to use them today. Something happened without me noticing until this article. Hmm...