Re: [new] print/ocrmypdf

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:43:27PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> ok to import this? (probably for post-release now)

ok kmos for import

--Kurt

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> Information for inst:ocrmypdf-13.7.0
>
> Comment:
> add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files
>
> Description:
> OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to
> be searched or copy+pasted.
>
> - Generates a searchable PDF/A file from a regular PDF
> - Places OCR text accurately below the image to ease copy / paste
> - Keeps the exact resolution of the original embedded images
> - When possible, inserts OCR information as a "lossless" operation
> without disrupting any other content
> - Optimizes PDF images, often producing files smaller than the input file
> - If requested, deskews and/or cleans the image before performing OCR
> - Validates input and output files
> - Distributes work across all available CPU cores
> - Uses Tesseract OCR engine to recognize more than 100 languages
> (use "pkg_info -Q tesseract" to locate language packs to install)
> - Keeps your private data private
> - Scales properly to handle files with thousands of pages
> - Battle-tested on millions of PDFs
>
> ocrmypdf # it's a scriptable command line program
> -l eng+fra # it supports multiple languages
> --rotate-pages # it can fix pages that are misrotated
> --deskew # it can deskew crooked PDFs!
> --title "My PDF" # it can change output metadata
> --jobs 4 # it uses multiple cores by default
> --output-type pdfa # it produces PDF/A by default
> input_scanned.pdf # takes PDF input (or images)
> output_searchable.pdf # produces validated PDF output
>
> Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
>
> WWW: https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/
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