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tesseract-ocr
#!/bin/bash
# Split and convert the PDF with ImageMagick convert
convert -density 300 input.pdf -type Grayscale -compress lzw -background white +matte -depth 32 page_%05d.tif
# OCR the pages with Tesseract
for i in page_*.tif; do echo $i; tesseract $i $(basename $i .tif) pdf; done
# Join your individual PDF files into a single, searchable PDF with pdftk
pdftk page_*.pdf cat output merged.pdf
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