NAME

PDF::OCR2 - extract all text and all image ocr from pdf

SYNOPSIS

use PDF::OCR2;

my $p = PDF::OCR2->new('./path/to/file.pdf');

my $text_all   = $p->text;
my @text_pages = $p->text;

DESCRIPTION

This is meant to replace PDF::OCR. The backend complexity of this process has been isolated in modules:

PDF::GetImages
PDF::Burst
Image::OCR::Tesseract
PDF::OCR2::Pages - in this distro.

Why not just modify PDF::OCR?? This is such a massive breakdown of code hierachy and interdependency, and such a different interface, that this made more sense. PDF::OCR was ok. But it was messy and really, this is a lot better.

METHODS

new()

Argument is path to pdf file.

text()

Takes no argument. In scalar context, returns text of all pages, joined with a pagebreak \f character. In list context, returns text of pages one per element.

CAVEATS

This only works on posix.

BUGS

CRIT AND SUGGESTIONS

The AUTHOR is open to any suggestions and requests.

SEE ALSO

CAM::PDF PDF::API2 PDF::GetImages PDF::Burst PDF::OCR2::Page

REPLACES

PDF::OCR - deprecated

AUTHOR

Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org