OCRmyPDF
Adds searchable text layer to scanned PDFs using Tesseract OCR.
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OCRmyPDF adds a searchable, selectable text layer to scanned PDFs using the Tesseract OCR engine, so existing PDFs become searchable without changing their appearance. It handles image preprocessing, deskewing, and file optimization, processes pages in parallel, and runs entirely on CPU as a command-line tool. It installs via pip or Homebrew. Released under the MPL-2.0 license.
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Details
- Category
- OCR & Document Processing
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Beginner (1/5)
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026
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