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How to make a searchable PDF
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# This pertains to making a searchable PDF
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# (1) Make sure your scanner setting is set to either Greyscale or Full-Colour and 200 dpi.
# (2) You need to have the following installed on your Ubuntu (Debian) system
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sudo apt-get install imagemagick tesseract-ocr
# (3) Once you get the scanned PDF sent to your Univ e-mail address, download it and run the following
convert -normalize -density 200 -depth 8 <scanned.pdf> <newname.tif>
tesseract <newname.tif> <newpdfname> pdf
# (4) Open the newly created pdf and start searching
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