Provided by: pdfsandwich_0.1.7-2build6_amd64 
NAME
pdfsandwich - A generator for sandwich OCR pdfs from scanned pdf files
SYNOPSIS
pdfsandwich [options] inputfile.pdf
DESCRIPTION
pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (no text) will
be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly
"behind" the images. Note that pdfsandwich needs the following programs: unpaper, convert, gs, hocr2pdf
(for tesseract < 3.03), and tesseract. As tesseract >= 3.03 can write pdf files, hocr2pdf is only needed
for older versions of tesseract. Please visit http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich.
OPTIONS
-convert
-convert filename : name of convert binary (default: convert)
-coo -coo options : additional convert options; make sure to quote; e.g. -coo "-normalize -black-
threshold 75%" call convert --help or man convert for all convert options
-debug keep all temporary files in /tmp (for debugging)
-enforcehocr2pdf
use hocr2pdf even if tesseract >= 3.03
-first_page
-first_page number : number of page to start OCR from (default: 1)
-gray use grayscale for images (default: black and white)
-grayfilter
enable unpaper's gray filter; further options can be set by -unpo
-gs -gs filename : name of gs binary (default: gs); optional, only required for resizing
-hocr2pdf
-hocr2pdf filename : name of hocr2pdf binary (default: hocr2pdf); ignored for tesseract >= 3.03
unless option -enforcehocr2pdf is set
-hoo -hoo options : additional hocr2pdf options; make sure to quote
-identify
-identify filename : name of identify binary (default: identify)
-last_page
-last_page number : number of page up to which to process OCR (default: number of pages in
inputfile)
-lang -lang language : language of the text; option to tesseract (default: eng) e.g: eng, deu, deu-frak,
fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ... see option -list_langs; Multiple languages may be specified,
separated by plus characters.
-layout
-layout { single | double | none } : layout of the scanned pages; requires unpaper single: one
page per sheet double: two pages per sheet none: no auto-layout (default)
-list_langs
list currently available languages and exit; in case of custom binaries of tesseract, place this
after the -tesseract option
-maxpixels
-maxpixels NUM : maximal number of pixels allowed for input file if (resolution/72)^2
*width*height > maxpixels then scale page of input file down prior to OCR so that page size in
pixels corresponds to maxpixels; default: 17415167 (A3 @ 300 dpi)
-noimage
do not place the image over the text (requires hocr2pdf; ignored without -enforcehocr2pdf option)
-nopreproc
do not preprocess with unpaper
-nthreads
-nthreads number : number of parallel threads (default: guessed number of CPUs; if guessing fails:
1)
-o -o filename : output file; default: inputfile_ocr.pdf (if extension is different from .pdf,
original extension is kept)
-omp_thread_limit
-omp_thread_limit number : number of threads tesseract may use for each page (default: 1)
-pagesize
-pagesize { original | NUMxNUM } : set page size of output pdf (requires ghostscript) original:
same as input file (default) NUMxNUM: width x height in pixel (e.g. for A4: -pagesize 595x842)
-pdfinfo
-pdfinfo filename : name of pdfinfo binary (default: pdfinfo)
-pdfunite
-pdfunite filename : name of pdfunite binary (default: pdfunite)
-resolution
-resolution NUM : resolution (dpi) used for OCR (default: 300)
-rgb use RGB color space for images (default: black and white); use with care: causes problems with
some color spaces
-sloppy_text
sloppily place text, group words, do not draw single glyphs; ignored for tesseract >= 3.03 unless
option -enforcehocr2pdf is set
-tesseract
-tesseract filename : name of tesseract binary (default: tesseract)
-tesso -tesso options : additional tesseract options; make sure to quote
-unpaper
-unpaper filename : name of unpaper binary (default: unpaper)
-unpo -unpo options : additional unpaper options; make sure to quote
-quiet suppress output
-verbose
produce more output
-version
print version and quit
-help Display this list of options
--help Display this list of options
LANGUAGES
Via Tesseract, numerous language packagess available - follow this link
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list for a complete list. Here is an incomplete
selection of supported languages and their abbreviations:
ara (Arabic), aze (Azerbauijani), bul (Bulgarian), cat (Catalan), ces (Czech), chi_sim (Simplified
Chinese), chi_tra (Traditional Chinese), chr (Cherokee), dan (Danish), dan-frak (Danish (Fraktur)), deu
(German), ell (Greek), eng (English), enm (Old English), epo (Esperanto), est (Estonian), fin (Finnish),
fra (French), frm (Old French), glg (Galician), heb (Hebrew), hin (Hindi), hrv (Croation), hun
(Hungarian), ind (Indonesian), ita (Italian), jpn (Japanese), kor (Korean), lav (Latvian), lit
(Lithuanian), nld (Dutch), nor (Norwegian), pol (Polish), por (Portuguese), ron (Romanian), rus
(Russian), slk (Slovakian), slv (Slovenian), sqi (Albanian), spa (Spanish), srp (Serbian), swe (Swedish),
tam (Tamil), tel (Telugu), tgl (Tagalog), tha (Thai), tur (Turkish), ukr (Ukrainian), vie (Vietnamese)
Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters. Note that the respective tesseract
language package needs to be installed on your system to be usable by pdfsandwich. Option -list_langs
lists the languages which are available on your system.
AVAILABILITY
Sources and packages as well as comprehensive help can be found at http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich.
AUTHOR
Tobias Elze <sourceforge@tobias-elze.de>
18 August 2023 PDFSANDWICH(1)