tldr/pages/common/ocrmypdf.md

ocrmypdf

Generate a searchable PDF or PDF/A from a scanned PDF or an image of text. More information: https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook.html.

• Create a new searchable PDF/A file from a scanned PDF or image file:

ocrmypdf {{path/to/input}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}

• Skip pages of a mixed-format input PDF file that already contain text:

ocrmypdf --skip-text {{path/to/input.pdf}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}

• Clean, de-skew, and rotate pages of a poor scan:

ocrmypdf --clean --deskew --rotate-pages {{path/to/input.pdf}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}

• Perform lossy optimization on a PDF without performing any OCR:

ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout 0 --optimize 2 --skip-text {{path/to/input.pdf}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}

• Set the metadata of a searchable PDF file:

ocrmypdf --title "{{title}}" --author "{{author}}" --subject "{{subject}}" --keywords "{{keyword; key phrase; ...}}" {{path/to/input.pdf}} {{path/to/output.pdf}}

• Display help:

ocrmypdf --help