Ocr4pdf

System dependencies include:

• Tesseract
• poppler-utils — for its pdfinfo, pdftocairo and pdfunite commands

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add ocr4pdf

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install ocr4pdf

Usage

Currently, Ocr4pdf only supports input files in PDF format.

require 'ocr4pdf'

new_pdf_blob = Ocr4pdf.new('path/to/file.pdf').create_ocr_pdf

# To save the new PDF to disk, use:
File.binwrite('path/to/new_file.pdf', new_pdf_blob)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/ocr4pdf. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Ocr4pdf project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.