OpenSource OCR for Mac OS

png2pdf.sh

#!/bin/bash

# For Macs:
# brew install tesseract --with-all-languages

echo "Hint: Prepare all png images as valid OCR input before starting convert process"

if [[ "$1" != "" ]]; then
    files="$1"
else
    files=*.png
fi

if [[ "$2" != "" ]]; then
    selected_language="-l eng+deu"
else
    selected_language=""
fi

for f in $files
do

for f in $FILES
do
  file_basename=$(basename $f .png)
  echo "## CONVERTING $f > ${file_basename}.pdf"
  tesseract $selected_language $f $file_basename pdf
done