pdf-image-to-text

A utility to convert a PDF made of images to text.

Requirements

• ImageMagick (the library uses convert utility coming from ImageMagick lib)
• an OCR (tesseract-ocr >= 3.01 with french lang)
• Python 3

Install

(pip 9.0.1 works)

pip install pdf-image-to-text --process-dependency-links

Usage

Common use (output to a json file)

pdf-image-to-text.py <file.pdf> > <file.txt>

Generic use (output to standard output)

pdf-image-to-text.py <file.pdf>

License : BSD (3-Clause)