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ocr.sh
#!bin/bash
# A bit of a hack... useful for old bank docs and PDFs as a
# first step to converting to CSV before importing to a
# spreadsheet or accounting application
# Requires Imagemagick and Tesseract:
# brew install imagemagick
# brew install tesseract
# PDF -> PNG -> TXT
convert -density 150 THE_PDF_FILE.pdf 2021-IMAGE_FILE-%04d.png
l *.png | xargs -n 1 -I FILE tesseract FILE - -l eng --psm 6 >> output.txt
rm -v 2021-IMAGE_FILE-*.png
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