pranavjha/text-detector

#!/bin/bash
#   pdf2text
#
#     Rasterizes a PDF file, saving as a single multipage g4 compressed
#     tiff file.  Then runs tesseract on that file, producing the output
#     text file.
#
#     input:  PDF file
#             multipage tiff filename
#             text filename (without any extension; this adds '.txt')
#
#   N.B. Requires ghostscript

scriptname=${0##*/}

if test $# != 3
then
  echo "usage: " $scriptname " pdfin tiffout textout"
  exit -1
fi

pdfin=$1
tiffout=$2
textout=$3

# assert (input pdf filename ends in .pdf)
if test ${pdfin##*.} != pdf
then
  echo $scriptname ": " $pdfin "does not end in .pdf"
  exit -1
fi

# 'echo "0 neg 0 neg" translate' is the mysterious "primer"
# choose one of the two options below

# output image size at 300 ppi
rm /tmp/junkpdf*
echo "0 neg 0 neg" translate | /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=/tmp/junkpdf%03d.tif -r300x300 -q - ${pdfin}
writemtiff /tmp junkpdf ${tiffout}

# output image size at 600 ppi
rm /tmp/junkpdf*
echo "0 neg 0 neg" translate | /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=/tmp/junkpdf%03d.tif -r600x600 -q - ${pdfin}
writemtiff /tmp junkpdf ${tiffout}

# now run tesseract
cd /home/dbloomberg/src5/google3
./tesseract ${tiffout} ${textout}