pdf to txt

How to translate pdf book images to text (results are very poor, and will need lots of corrections).

Dependencies

Search for ’tesseract english’ (or whatever language).

Arch: tesseract-data-eng and poppler-utils

Script

pdftoppm -png *file*.pdf test

for x in \*png; do
    tesseract -l eng  "$x" - >> *out*.txt
done