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Is there a way to OCR incoming PDFs that are faxed in order to make them searchable

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Aug 2, 2018 at 8:02am • 2 replies • 0 likes

aaron11128

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Tyler Liu answered on Aug 2, 2018 at 6:34pm

Just want to mention that OCR is not the only way to extract text from PDF. If the PDF's content is text instead of image, you can use some library to extract the text. Search GitHub for "pdf to text".

John Wang answered on Aug 2, 2018 at 10:46am

You can do this buy retrieving the PDF and using an OCR API or the Tesseract Open Source package.

One API that can be used is the Google Vision API:

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/pdf

The Tesseract Open Source OCR engine is generally considered one of, if not, the best open source solutions:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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