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Convert Postscript files to PDF with embedded OCR
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my-ps-to-pdf.sh
#!/bin/bash
psfile=$1
tmpfoo=`basename $0`
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/${tempfoo}.XXXXXX` || exit 1
echo $TMPDIR
gs -o $TMPDIR/%05d.png -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 -dPDFFitPage=true $psfile
ls $TMPDIR/*png | parallel 'tesseract -l eng {} {.} pdf'
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFIXEDMEDIA -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dPDFFitPage -sOutputFile=${psfile/.ps/.pdf} $(ls $TMPDIR/*pdf)
rm -rf $TMPDIR
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