TLDR Search

Enter a command. For example: puppet, jar, createdb, gh browse.

ocrmypdf

Generate a searchable PDF or PDF/A from a scanned PDF or an image of text. More information: https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook.html.

• Create a new searchable PDF/A file from a scanned PDF or image file:
   
  ocrmypdf {{path/to/input_file}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}
   
• Replace a scanned PDF file with a searchable PDF file:
   
  ocrmypdf {{path/to/file.pdf}} {{path/to/file.pdf}}
   
• Skip pages of a mixed-format input PDF file that already contain text:
   
  ocrmypdf --skip-text {{path/to/input.pdf}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}
   
• Clean, de-skew, and rotate pages of a poor scan:
   
  ocrmypdf --clean --deskew --rotate-pages {{path/to/input_file}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}
   
• Set the metadata of the searchable PDF file:
   
  ocrmypdf --title "{{title}}" --author "{{author}}" --subject "{{subject}}" --keywords "{{keyword; key phrase; ...}}" {{path/to/input_file}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}
   
• Display help:
   
  ocrmypdf --help