tesseract ocr pdf

It´s a script extract PDF´s images and use tesseract OCR for scan it

Pre-installation dependencies

Before you can run it, you need to install Python 3.8, onwards, and tesseract OCR

Python 3

You can download for your OS from their Oficial Download Page

tesseract

Windows

For Windows, you can download the binary installer from here.

Install dependencies

$ pip install pillow
$ pip install pytesseract
$ pip install opencv-python
$ pip install PyMuPDF

Usage

When finish the installation, you can run the script

$ cd tesseract-ocr-pdf
$ python main.py

Windows

You need to provide the path to your tesseract.exe. For example:

> [!] Insert path to your tesseract.exe
> C:\Users\User\tesseract\tesseract.exe

Then, the path to your PDF´file

> [!] Insert path to your tesseract.exe
> C:\Users\User\Documents\file.pdf

And then, the script starts to extract images, scan and create the file with the text output