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Making a scan of your own pages searchable with OCRmyPDF: PDF/A output, languages and errors…
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What this guide covers
A documentation-based checklist for turning a scan of your own pages into a searchable PDF with OCRmyPDF. It covers the default output type, rotation and clean-up, language choice, text export, limits and common error messages. Nothing was installed or run and no scan was processed.
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Guide title
Making a scan of your own pages searchable with OCRmyPDF: PDF/A output, languages and errors (docs only)
Coverage
A documentation-based checklist for turning a scan of your own pages into a searchable PDF with OCRmyPDF. It covers the default output type, rotation and clean-up, language choice, text export, limits and common error messages. Nothing was installed or run and no scan was processed.
Useful starting points
- Work on a copy of the scan, and review every page after clean-up options, which can remove wanted content from poor scans.
- Set the document language; English is assumed and recognition can be poor with the wrong one.
- Handwriting is not recognized, and a digitally signed PDF is refused by default.
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