jburon

#!/bin/sh

# Take a PDF, OCR it, and add OCR Text as background layer to original PDF to make it searchable.
# Hacked together using tips from these websites:
#      http://www.jlaundry.com/2012/ocr-a-scanned-pdf-with-tesseract/
#      http://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line
# Dependencies: pdftk, tesseract, imagemagick, hocr2pdf

cp $1 $1.bak
pdftk $1 burst output tesspage_%02d.pdf