The PDF OCR (optical character recognition) step converts images of text embedded in PDF files into machine-encoded text. Images of text are typically found in PDFs of scanned documents.

Overview

The PDF OCR step belongs to the Enrich steps. Using OCRmyPDF, It extracts text from files of MIME type application/pdf that don’t contain machine-readable text.

The Content Augmentation step needs to run before, the Content Extraction (formerly Content Conversion) step after the PDF OCR step.

Configuration

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Field

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Default

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Description

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UI Setting

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replace_file

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True

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Replace original PDF file with a PDF file containing the extracted text overlay.

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ocr_timeout

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60

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Maximum time in seconds spent on OCR per document

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This page can now be found at PDF OCR on the Squirro Docs site.