PDFix OCR with Paddle

Docker image based PDF text recogntion with OCR Paddle and PDFix SDK

System Requirements

• Docker Engine https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Run using Command Line Interface

Usage:

./run.sh [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --input <input.pdf>     Path to the input PDF file
  --output <output.pdf>   Path the output PDF file
  --lang <lang>           OCR language (default: eng)
  --name <name>           License name
  --key <key>             License key
  --build                 Force rebuild of the Docker image
  --help                  Display this help message

Run a Docker image

Build docker image

Build the docker image with the name pdfix-paddle-ocr. You can choose another name if you want.

docker build -t pdfix-paddle-ocr .

Run docker container

To run docker container you should map directories with PDF documents to the container (-v parameter) and pass paths to input/output PDF document in the running container

Example:

• Your input PDF is: /home/pdfs_in/scanned.pdf
• Your output PDF is: /home/pdfs_out/ocred.pdf

Path /home/pdfs_in is mapped to /data_in and /home/pdfs_out is mapped to /data_out

docker run --rm -v /home/pdfs_in:/data_in -v /home/pdfs_out:/data_out -it pdfix-paddle-ocr --input /data_in/scanned.pdf --output /data_out/ocred.pdf --lang eng --name $LICENSE_NAME --key $LICENSE_KEY

Arguments --input, --output, --lang, --name, --key are the same as the CLI

License & libraries used

• PDFix SDK - https://pdfix.net/terms
• OCR Paddle - https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Trial version of the PDFix SDK may apply a watermark on the page and redact random parts of the PDF.

Help & Support

To obtain a PDFix SDK license or report an issue please contact us at [email protected]. For more information visit https://pdfix.net