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Created February 3, 2017 13:31
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Requires Tesseract ("brew install tesseract" should do the trick)
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OCR PDFs
#!/bin/bash
convert -density 300 $1 -depth 8 -fill white -background white -alpha Off out.tiff && tesseract out.tiff $1 pdf && rm -f out.tiff
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wkronmiller commented Feb 3, 2017 •
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I believe the particular imagemagick configuration is an adaptation of one I found on StackOverflow. If I can find it, I will link to it.

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