Yes, tesseract can create searchable pdf (I am not sure how you define if process is reliable...).
Tesseract input must be image (or list of images in text file) so you can not directly convert pdf pr djvu files to searchable pdf. But there are tools like OCRmyPDF[1] that can help you with converting pdf to searchable pdf (with tesseract) [1] https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF Zdenko po 21. 10. 2019 o 11:14 tuxcrafter <[email protected]> napísal(a): > Hello everybody, > > Our Xerox machines died again that has the option to do standalone scans > to searchable pdf. We only have linux workstations. I am now looking at > buying a cheaper scanning solutions and do pdf to searchable pdfs on the > workstations. > > Can tesseract-ocr be used to convert pdf's to searchable pdfs reliable? > Does somebody have a professional case study? > > Can we convert our legacy djvu files to searchable pdf's with tesseract? > > I tried to use tesseract many years ago for this but no luck back then. > > Kind regards, > > Jelle de Jong > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/475cfcbb-d319-4426-9b45-652d8fd0317c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/475cfcbb-d319-4426-9b45-652d8fd0317c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAJbzG8x2JQsKGPqFmwcJhpnBD967hNZvidHZgrw087R-fH4vYw%40mail.gmail.com.
