> I’m not quite sure if I understand the question, but if all you want to do is pull the text out of an OCR’ed PDF file, then I have found both Tika and PDFtotext to be useful tools....
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> On the other hand, if you need to do the OCR itself, then employing Tesseract is probably the way to go. 

For clarity, I have to do the OCR itself. I've been using CAM::PDF to extract existing text.

Kyle