OCRmyPDF Searchable PDF OCR Pipeline

OCRmyPDF is an open source tool that adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs. It is useful when an agent needs to turn image-based documents into text-searchable files without rebuilding a full document pipeline.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• brew install tesseract-lang

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD are supported. Docker images are also available, for both x64 and ARM.

• Add an OCR layer and require PDF/A

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• [![PyPI version][pypi]](https://pypi.org/project/ocrmypdf...

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• Source: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange