OCR
Compress scanned handwritten notes with Noteshrink
A step-by-step tutorial on reducing the file size of scanned handwritten notes and documents using Noteshrink on Linux. Discover how to extract images from a PDF, clean up the background, improve ink contrast, and repackage it into a much lighter file.
OCR in scanned PDF files with OCRmyPDF
A step-by-step guide to applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scanned PDF documents in Linux using the OCRmyPDF tool and the Tesseract engine. Learn how to convert static images into selectable text documents, optimize their file size, and automate batch processing from the terminal.