From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 20:33:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: add make_ocr_pdf command
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=bin.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=82676f2cd7110bb71df155b534d6cede0e0a9876

add make_ocr_pdf command
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diff --git a/make_ocr_pdf b/make_ocr_pdf
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright 2018 by Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
+# Licensed under the terms of the GPL version 3 or any later version at your option.
+
+
+import argparse
+import subprocess
+import re
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Make a PDF from TIFF files with OCR")
+
+parser.add_argument('--output','-f',default='output.pdf')
+parser.add_argument('tiff',nargs='+')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+# combine the tiff files into a multi-image tiff
+subprocess.run(['e2mtiff','--output','temp.tiff']+args.tiff,check=True)
+# tesseract appends pdf when we write to an output for some reason
+output_name = re.sub(r"\.pdf$","",args.output)
+subprocess.run(['tesseract','temp.tiff',output_name,'pdf'],check=True)
+