OCRmyPDF

Free open-source OCR — make any scanned PDF searchable in one command.
OCRmyPDF is the free, open-source command-line tool that adds a searchable, selectable text layer to any scanned PDF — powered by Tesseract OCR under the hood with 100+ languages. Preserves original quality, deskews, cleans, and produces PDF/A archival files ready for search indexes. MIT-licensed, scripts beautifully, and quietly powers document management systems across the entire open-source world.
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