Bug#799129: ITP: pdfsandwich -- A tool to make sandwich OCR pdf files
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
* Package name : pdfsandwich
Version : 0.1.4
Upstream Author : Tobias Elze
* URL : http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
* License : GPL-2+
Programming Lang: OCaml
Description : A tool to make sandwich OCR pdf files
(From the webpage:)
pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain
only images (no text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR)
and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images.
pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR
scanned books or journals. It is able to recognize the page layout even for
multicolumn text.
Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following
binaries: unpaper (since version 0.0.9), convert, gs, hocr2pdf (for tesseract
prior to version 3.03), and tesseract. It is known to run on Unix systems and
has been tested on Linux and MacOS X. It supports parallel processing on
multiprocessor systems.
While pdfsandwich works with any version of tesseract from version 3.0 on,
tesseract 3.03 or later is recommended for best performance. By default,
pdfsandwich runs unpaper to enhance the readability of scanned pages and to
improve OCR. For instance, slightly rotated pages are automatically
straightened and dark edges removed. For optimally scanned pdf files, this can
be switched off by option -nopreproc to speed up processing.
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