OCRPDF

OCRPDF is a Python wrapper that helps you quiclkly OCR multi-page PDF documents

Requirements

You must have already installed:

• ImageMagik (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php)
• GhostScript (http://www.ghostscript.com)
• The Tesseract OCR engine (https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/)

Dependencies

You must also have installed the following Python modules:

• PIL (or Pillow)
• Pytesser (you may have to modify pytesser.py if needed to change "import Image" to "from PythonMagick import Image")
• PythonMagik (helpful guidance can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13984357/pythonmagick-cant-find-my-pdf-files)

Basic Usage

To create a new instance of OCRPDF and OCR a file:

from OCRPDF import OCRPDF

ocrTool = OCRPDF()
result = ocrTool.OCRPDF('YourFileNameHere')

This returns an object of:

	t         : raw text
	t_clean   : cleaned text
	pages     : number of pages
	p         : list of page data objects
	            pagenum : page number
				t       : raw text from this page
				t_clean : cleaned text from this page

So to view the raw text from page 3 of your document:

print result.p[2].t

(It's p[2] because lists are 0-based.)