Installing Tesseract Languages

For ocrmypdf or just general tesseract work, you may need to install language packages, depending on the languages you are working in.   ERROR – The installed version of tesseract does not have language data for the following requested languages: run the command tesseract –list-langs Error opening data file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.traineddata Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment … Read more

ocrmypdf usage flags / command options

Personally, for my english PDF files I run the command ocrmypdf –tesseract-timeout 600 –rotate-pages –deskew –pdf-renderer tesseract –output-type pdf -l eng –clean –skip-text input.pdf output.pdf This ensures we aren’t un-necessairly running OCR on text pages while OCR-ing any non-text pages and cleaning up the pdf file. confidence too low to rotate add the flag rotate-pages-threshold … Read more