Padraic Stack wrote: > What is a straightforward way to combine the text with overlaid images > to create searchable pdfs? having transcription in hOCR[1] format the tool you should need is hocr2pdf[2]. i never tried for pdfs, years ago i made some djvu following this tutorial[3] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOCR [2] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/hocr2pdf.1.html [3] https://philikon.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/digitizing-books-to-djvu/ ciao. -- raffaele