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Batch OCR PDFs

In PDFs directory:

  1. Replace additional . in filenames with _: zmv '(*.*)(.*)' '${1//./_}$2
  2. mkdir jpg && mkdir txt
  3. mogrify -format jpg -density 200 -quality 100 -alpha off -path jpg/ -verbose *.pdf
  4. for file in jpg/*.jpg; do tesseract $file ${file%%.*}; done
  5. mv jpg/*.txt txt/
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