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OCR of scans with splitting double-page
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| for pdf in *.pdf; | |
| do | |
| # Display the PDF file to process | |
| echo "Processing file \"$pdf\"…" | |
| # Temporary folder | |
| TmpRep="/tmp/conversion$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)" | |
| mkdir --parents "$TmpRep" | |
| # Extract the PDF in the temporary folder | |
| pdfimages "$pdf" "$TmpRep/${pdf%.pdf}" | |
| for img in "$TmpRep"/*.ppm; | |
| do | |
| # Get image size | |
| Larg=$(identify -format "%w" "$img") | |
| Haut=$(identify -format "%h" "$img") | |
| # Check if the image is in landscape | |
| if [ $Larg -gt $Haut ] | |
| then | |
| # Cut it in two portraits | |
| echo "The image \"$img\" is in landscape. It will be cut in two portraits." | |
| convert "$img" -crop 2x1@ "${img%.*}_%d.ppm" | |
| # Delete the original | |
| rm "$img" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| # Create the PDF file with OCR from the images | |
| img2pdf "$TmpRep"/*.ppm | ocrmypdf --language $1 --deskew --remove-background --clean-final --tesseract-timeout 240 --optimize 3 - "${pdf%.pdf} - OCR.pdf" | |
| # Delete the temporary folder | |
| rm -rf "$TmpRep"/ | |
| echo "File processing \"$pdf\" done." | |
| done |
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