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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ajayiyer@mastodon.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Dear @linux and @academicchatter folks:

Please suggest libre/open source tools that allow for the extraction of text and images from scientific pdf documents?

P.S: I'm on a linux machine. Would like something terminal friendly, if possible!

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[–] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

gImageReader is a graphical front-end to the open-source OCR program Tesseract, so that might be just what you're looking for. The default settings don't add the OCR'd text to the PDF but you can do that.