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Extract OCRed text from a pdf.
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ocrextract.sh
#!/bin/bash
# usage: ocrextract x where x is a pdf file will generate a text file containing x's text
convert -density 300 $1.pdf -depth 8 -alpha OFF $1.tiff
tesseract $1.tiff $1.txt
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