dch42 / ocr

CLI script to convert images and pdf files into text for easier processing.

ocr

CLI script to convert images and pdf files into text for easier processing.

Uses pytesseract and pdf2image for OCR and image conversion respectively.

Users running MacOS may also need to install poppler (for pdftoppm).

Setup 🔧

clone the repo and change to directory:

git clone https://github.com/dch42/ocr.git && cd ocr

Run setup.sh to install the script:

chmod +x setup.sh && ./setup.sh

This will install dependencies and install the script as ocr in /Users/$USER/bin, adding it to bash or zsh $PATH.

Usage

Invoke specifying desired input and output files with -i and -o, respectively:

ocr -i MyFile.pdf -o myfile.txt

The parsed text will be written/appended to the specified output file.

Multiple input files can be passed in one go, separated by spaces or globbed.

ocr -i MyFile.png MyFile2.jpg -o myfiles.txt
ocr -i MyFile* -o myfiles.txt

Options

• -h, --help
  • show this help message and exit
• -i, --input [INPUT...]
  • input file(s) to operate on
• -o, --output
  • output file for converted text
• -p, --print
  • prints converted text result to terminal