Using Open Source OCRMYPDF To OCR PDFS On A Mac
I sometimes need to ocr pdfs. For simple documents, [I use the ocr tool at PDF24Tools.
But sometimes I need to ocr a pdf file that has hundreds or thousands of pages. For that I use ocrmypdf.
The docs for ocrmypdf are here.
To install on a Mac using homebrew:
brew install ocrmypdf
To ocr a pdf file after installation:
ocrmypdf –output-type pdf –redo-ocr NameOfSource.pdf NameOfTarget.pdf
Make sure that all file names are one_word.pdf
Where the source file and the target file that will be created are located within a directory called *Downloads:*
ocrmypdf --output-type pdf --redo-ocr Downloads/name_of_source.pdf Downloads/name_of_target.pdf
Documentation is Everything.