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How to make a searchable PDF
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| # This pertains to making a searchable PDF | |
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| # (1) Make sure your scanner setting is set to either Greyscale or Full-Colour and 200 dpi. | |
| # (2) You need to have the following installed on your Ubuntu (Debian) system | |
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| sudo apt-get install imagemagick tesseract-ocr | |
| # (3) Once you get the scanned PDF sent to your Univ e-mail address, download it and run the following | |
| convert -normalize -density 200 -depth 8 <scanned.pdf> <newname.tif> | |
| tesseract <newname.tif> <newpdfname> pdf | |
| # (4) Open the newly created pdf and start searching |
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