https://github.com/cseas/ocr-table

Extract tables from scanned image PDFs using Optical Character Recognition.
https://github.com/cseas/ocr-table

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Extract tables from scanned image PDFs using Optical Character Recognition.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cseas/ocr-table
• Owner: cseas
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-05-07T18:12:36.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-09T03:34:45.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-03T09:33:36.374Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: extract-tables, ocr, ocr-table, optical-character-recognition, pdfminer, python, scanned-image-pdfs, shell, tesseract
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 12.8 MB
• Stars: 265
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 64
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ocr-table

This project aims to extract tables from scanned image PDFs using Optical Character Recognition.

# Install Requirements

1. Tesseract OCR

	```sh

	sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

	```

2. Imagemagick

	```sh

	sudo apt-get install imagemagick

	```

3. PDF Utilities

	```sh

	sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

	```

4. Python packages

	```sh

	sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

	```

# Usage

1. Clear the [pdf/](pdf) folder and copy all your pdf files to be scanned in it.

2. Run the OCR:

	```sh

	python3 shellocr.py

	```

3. The scanned text files shall be available in the [txt/](txt) folder once the process completes.

# Alternate

1. If the above doesn't work for you, try the alternate method.

2. Save your file as input.pdf in the root directory.

3. Run

	```sh

	python3 pdf_miner.py 

	```