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Is there something I can run on my Mac that will systematically OCR every PDF on my drive for easy searching?

• simonw 3y ago
  My s3-ocr tool could do that with quite a bit of extra configuration. https://github.com/simonw/s3-ocr https://github.com/simonw/s3-ocr You would need to upload them all to S3 first though, which is a bit of a pain just to run OCR (that's Textract's fault). You could try stitching together a bunch of scripts to run the CLI version of Tesseract locally.
  • xrd 3y ago
    If it's s3 and the url is configurable, you could probably run minio inside a docker container locally and save a few minutes?
    • simonw 3y ago
      Sadly to use AWS Textract with PDFs you have to push to an AWS S3 bucket and then pass the bucket and file name to the Textract API.