alternative to ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Acrobat
OCRmyPDF
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- v17.13.02026-09-28PDF/A made without Ghostscript ("speculative" conversion) is now validated
- v17.12.12026-09-16Fixes
- v17.12.02026-09-16OCRmyPDF now requires pikepdf 10.2 or later, up from pikepdf 10. This is the
- v17.11.02026-08-28Enhancements
- v17.10.02026-08-05The watcher.py watched-folder helper (the watcher extra) has been
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- ABBYY FineReaderAdds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs from the command line.Partial
- Adobe AcrobatThe OCR step only: makes scanned PDFs searchable.Partial