Hello, I have been trying to make PDFs searchable using OCRmyPDF and Tesseract, but despite following recommended steps, I have been unable to get the desired results.
Here is a summary of the issues I have faced: 1. Initially, I tried running OCRmyPDF on a PDF document (created by exporting a PNG image to PDF via GIMP) using the command `ocrmypdf -l eng OCR_test_eng.pdf outputOCR.pdf`. The process completed without errors, but the output PDF was not searchable. 2. I then updated my Tesseract to version 5.3.1+git6228-24da4c71-1ppa1~jammy1, hoping it might resolve the problem. However, the issue persisted. 3. I also attempted using the `--force-ocr` option with OCRmyPDF, but the output PDF remained unsearchable. Interestingly, for a scanned PDF document, OCRmyPDF indicated that the document already had text, even though it was not searchable. 4. To rule out problems with OCRmyPDF, I tried using pdfsandwich for OCR. However, it reported that Tesseract was unable to produce a PDF output file, suggesting that the problem might be with Tesseract itself. 5. I am running these commands on a Linux system Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS I have had no success with previous attempts at using Tesseract for OCR on Linux, and I'm hoping to finally resolve this issue. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Best, Filippos --- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/f84fa2a7-85be-46b8-bbf8-2d7ab605e324n%40googlegroups.com.
