ocrmypdf — Generate a searchable PDF or PDF/A from a scanned PDF or an image of text. More information: <https:

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}}