SYNOPSIS
pdfsandwich [options] inputfile.pdf
DESCRIPTION
pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (no text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images. Note that pdfsandwich needs the following programs: unpaper, convert, gs, hocr2pdf (for tesseract < 3.03), and tesseract. As tesseract >= 3.03 can write pdf files, hocr2pdf is only needed for older versions of tesseract. Please visit http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich.OPTIONS
- -convert
- -convert filename : name of convert binary (default: convert)
- -coo
- -coo options : additional convert options; make sure to quote; e.g. -coo "-normalize -black-threshold 75%" call convert --help or man convert for all convert options
- -debug
- keep all temporary files in /tmp (for debugging)
- -enforcehocr2pdf
- use hocr2pdf even if tesseract >= 3.03
- -first_page
- -first_page number : number of page to start OCR from (default: 1)
- -grayfilter
- enable unpaper's gray filter; further options can be set by -unpo
- -gs
- -gs filename : name of gs binary (default: gs)
- -hocr2pdf
- -hocr2pdf filename : name of hocr2pdf binary (default: hocr2pdf); ignored for tesseract >= 3.03 unless option -enforcehocr2pdf is set
- -hoo
- -hoo options : additional hocr2pdf options; make sure to quote
- -identify
- -identify filename : name of identify binary (default: identify)
- -last_page
- -last_page number : number of page up to which to process OCR (default: number of pages in inputfile)
- -lang
- -lang language : language of the text; option to tesseract (defaut: eng) e.g: eng, deu, deu-frak, fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ... see option -list_langs; Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters.
- -layout
- -layout { single | double | none } : layout of the scanned pages; requires unpaper single: one page per sheet double: two pages per sheet none: no auto-layout (default)
- -list_langs
- list currently available languages and exit; in case of custom binaries of tesseract, place this after the -tesseract option
- -maxpixels
- -maxpixels NUM : maximal number of pixels allowed for input file if (resolution/72)^2 *width*height > maxpixels then scale page of input file down prior to OCR so that page size in pixels corresponds to maxpixels; default: 17415167 (A3 @ 300 dpi)
- -noimage
- do not place the image over the text (requires hocr2pdf; ignored without -enforcehocr2pdf option)
- -nopreproc
- do not preprocess with unpaper
- -nthreads
- -nthreads number : number of parallel threads (default: guessed number of CPUs; if guessing fails: 1)
- -o
- -o filename : output file; default: inputfile_ocr.pdf (if extension is different from .pdf, original extension is kept)
- -pagesize
- -pagesize { original | NUMxNUM } : set page size of output pdf original: same as input file (default) NUMxNUM: width x height in pixel (e.g. for A4: -pagesize 595x842)
- -resolution
- -resolution NUM : resolution (dpi) used for OCR (default: 300)
- -rgb
- use RGB color space for images (default: black and white); use with care: causes problems with some color spaces
- -sloppy_text
- sloppily place text, group words, do not draw single glyphs; ignored for tesseract >= 3.03 unless option -enforcehocr2pdf is set
- -tesseract
- -tesseract filename : name of tesseract binary (default: tesseract)
- -tesso
- -tesso options : additional tesseract options; make sure to quote
- -unpaper
- -unpaper filename : name of unpaper binary (default: unpaper)
- -unpo
- -unpo options : additional unpaper options; make sure to quote
- -quiet
- suppress output
- -verbose
- produce more output
- -version
- print version and quit
- -help
- Display this list of options
- --help
- Display this list of options
LANGUAGES
Via Tesseract, numerous language packagess available - follow this link http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list for a complete list. Here is an incomplete selection of supported languages and their abbreviations:ara (Arabic), aze (Azerbauijani), bul (Bulgarian), cat (Catalan), ces (Czech), chi_sim (Simplified Chinese), chi_tra (Traditional Chinese), chr (Cherokee), dan (Danish), dan-frak (Danish (Fraktur)), deu (German), ell (Greek), eng (English), enm (Old English), epo (Esperanto), est (Estonian), fin (Finnish), fra (French), frm (Old French), glg (Galician), heb (Hebrew), hin (Hindi), hrv (Croation), hun (Hungarian), ind (Indonesian), ita (Italian), jpn (Japanese), kor (Korean), lav (Latvian), lit (Lithuanian), nld (Dutch), nor (Norwegian), pol (Polish), por (Portuguese), ron (Romanian), rus (Russian), slk (Slovakian), slv (Slovenian), sqi (Albanian), spa (Spanish), srp (Serbian), swe (Swedish), tam (Tamil), tel (Telugu), tgl (Tagalog), tha (Thai), tur (Turkish), ukr (Ukrainian), vie (Vietnamese)
Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters. Note that the respective tesseract language package needs to be installed on your system to be usable by pdfsandwich. Option -list_langs lists the languages which are available on your system.