tesseract-ocrHow do I use Tesseract OCR to convert a PDF document to text?

To use Tesseract OCR to convert a PDF document to text, you can use the pytesseract Python library.

First, install the library using pip install pytesseract.

Then, import the library in your Python script:

import pytesseract

Next, you can use the image_to_string function to convert the PDF file to a string of text:

text = pytesseract.image_to_string('./my_document.pdf')
print(text)

The output of the code will be a string of text extracted from the PDF document.

You can also use the image_to_data function to get more detailed information about the text extracted from the PDF document:

data = pytesseract.image_to_data('./my_document.pdf')
print(data)

The output of the code will be a dictionary containing information about the text, such as the text itself, the location of the text, and the confidence of the text recognition.

For more information on using Tesseract OCR with Python, please refer to the official documentation.

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