Extract text from image or pdf

How can you effectively extract text from a pdf or an image ? commmonly called OCR (optical character recognition). I found 2 extremly powerfull tools based on the open source engine Tesseract (Official website).

I am using windows and can be both used on this OS. One permit to convert scanned pdf to searchable pdf (as well as copiable). The other permit to get a screenshot from an area of your screen, convert it to text and store it in your clipboard.

• Ocrmypdf
  • you need to use Ubuntu on windows more info here
  • update your apt: sudo apt-get update
  • install it: sudo apt install ocrmypdf
• normcaphttps://github.com/dynobo/normcap
  • easy to install, just use the exe

Have a try :)

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