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		lelandfe on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OCRmyPDF: Add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF fil... I use OCRmyPDF to scan comic book PDFs en masse so they’re searchable, which makes keeping up with tons of characters more doable It’s a really nice piece of software!

BaraBatman on July 9, 2022 [–]

Love this. How do you do it? Any code online to take a look?

lelandfe on July 9, 2022 | [–]

Their docs are actually pretty good! https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/batch.html

After that, it’s a simple matter of doing Cmd-F in macOS - Finder searches over PDF text :)

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