Christian Mäder cimnine

Called myself «serious software architect» as a joke, then ended up sticking to that.

cimnine / ocr.sh

Created November 26, 2021 16:31

Script to OCR many PDF files using tessarect and imagemagick

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e

	analyze() {
	BASE="$1"
	echo "Converting 'input/$BASE.pdf' to 'output/$BASE.tiff'"
	convert -density 300 "input/$BASE.pdf" "output/$BASE.tiff" 2>&1

	echo "OCR of 'output/$BASE.pdf' to 'output/${BASE}_deu.pdf'"