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# OCR a PDF file to text using tesseract
{
writers,
poppler_utils,
tesseract,
coreutils,
}:
writers.writeDashBin "pdf-ocr" ''
set -efu
pdf_path="$(${coreutils}/bin/realpath "$1")"
[ -f "$pdf_path" ] || {
echo "Usage: pdf-ocr FILE.pdf" >&2
exit 1
}
tmpdir="$(${coreutils}/bin/mktemp -d)"
trap 'rm -rf $tmpdir' EXIT
cd "$tmpdir"
${poppler_utils}/bin/pdftoppm -png "$pdf_path" pdf-ocr
for png in pdf-ocr*.png; do
${tesseract}/bin/tesseract "$png" "$png.txt" 2>/dev/null
done
cat pdf-ocr-*.txt
''