lucab85 / PDFtoTXT

Python code to read text from a PDF file (OCR).

PDF to TXT

Python code to do OCR recognition of a PDF file and export text to TXT file.

• LocalOCR: based on Tesseract OCR
• CloudOCR: based on Google Vision API

Setup for LocalOCR on Ubuntu

apt-get install python-pyocr python-wand imagemagick
apt-get install libleptonica-dev tesseract-ocr-dev
apt-get install tesseract-ocr-ita
pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup CloudOCR on Ubuntu

Install Google Cloud SDK

apt-get install pdfimages google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python
pip install requirements.txt