Script to read scanned PDFs

Using the magic of tesseract to extract text from PDFs which weren't machine written

Requirements (Ubuntu 2x.04)

pdf2image needs uv, poppler-utils and Tesseract-ocr installed;

• curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
• sudo apt install poppler-utils tesseract-ocr

Usage

uv run scanner <folder with pdf docs>