On 2014-12-09 14:25, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I've just started a project that involves harvesting large numbers of
> scanned PDF's and extracting information from the text from the OCR output.
> The process I've started with -- use imagemagick to convert to tiff and
> tesseract to pull out the OCR -- is more system intensive than I hoped it
> would be.
>

I asked around the office and the process seems sensible overall. One 
suggestion was to use pdfimages instead of imagemagick as that should be 
faster.

However I would guess that most of the processing time is actually spent 
in tesseract so I don't know how much this suggestion will improve the 
overall performance.

Regards.

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