A quick bash script that wraps around tesseract and allows tesseract to work on pdfs of scans

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scantopdf

A quick bash script that wraps around tesseract and allows tesseract to work on pdfs of scans

Installation

To install this script, just paste these commands in the terminal

git clone https://git.karma-riuk.com/karma/scantopdf /tmp/scantopdf
sudo cp /tmp/scantopdf/scantopdf /usr/local/bin/scantopdf
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/scantopdf

Usage

To use this script, follow this steps

Open a terminal
Go the location of the file you want to "convert" with the following command

cd <path>

where <path> is the location of the folder where lies the file to convert. 3. Use the command scantopdf and give it, as an argument, the file you want to convert. If the file name contains spaces, surround it with quotes "

scantopdf "I Promessi Sposi.pdf"

Optionally you can give it the -v flag (before the name of the file), to make the script verbose, so instead of doing its job without saying anything, it will print each step that it's doing.

scantopdf -v "La Divina Commedia.pdf"