# 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 ''