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

Using OCRmyPDF, the PDF OCR step extracts text from files of MIME type application/pdf that don’t contain any machine-readable text.

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

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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.