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OCR of a PDF with scanned text

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Using Docker to OCR text from a scanned PDF

docker container run --rm -d -v "${PWD}":/tmp/zfoo --name ocr ubuntu sleep inf

docker container exec -i ocr /bin/bash << 'eof'
  export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
  apt-get update
  apt-get install -y python3-pip vim less tree tesseract-ocr ghostscript
  pip3 install --break-system-packages ocrmypdf
eof

docker container exec -w /tmp/zfoo ocr \
  ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf