Re: [libreoffice-users] Scanned and OCR's PDF to text

Am 09.06.25 01:45 schrieb(en) Leo L te Braake:
>   * If somehow I get this text without the graphics in a LO Draw file,
>     will I be able to make a Writes file out of it?
>   * Is there a better route between the PDF and a .csv file?

Not sure if I understood your issue completely…

If you have a PDF which includes both the scanned bitmap as well as the plain text from OCR, you 
can use command line tools like “pdftotext” (on Debian in the ”poppler-utils” package) or similar 
to extract the latter.

If the quality of the scan (as you mentioned) is somewhat bad, but you can access a higher quality 
scan as PDF, have a look at OCRmyPDF (<https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF>).  It runs tesseract 
as OCR engine on the PDF input, producing a combined bitmap/text PDF output, with the ability to 
write the OCR output to a different file (have a look at the “--sidecar” option).

Once you have the plain-text output, it should be feasible to write a script (python, perl, 
whatever) to extract the relevant data as CSV.

Hth,
Albrecht.
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