ocrmypdf

Generate a searchable PDF or PDF/A from a scanned PDF or an image of text. More information: https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook.html.

• Create a new searchable PDF/A file from a scanned PDF or image file:

ocrmypdf path/to/input_file path/to/output.pdf

• Replace a scanned PDF file with a searchable PDF file:

ocrmypdf path/to/file.pdf path/to/file.pdf

• Skip pages of a mixed-format input PDF file that already contain text:

ocrmypdf --skip-text path/to/input.pdf path/to/output.pdf

• Clean, de-skew, and rotate pages of a poor scan:

ocrmypdf --clean --deskew --rotate-pages path/to/input_file path/to/output.pdf

• Set the metadata of the searchable PDF file:

ocrmypdf --title "title" --author "author" --subject "subject" --keywords "keyword; key phrase; …" path/to/input_file path/to/output.pdf

• Display help:

ocrmypdf --help