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Re:Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs by firesteelrain on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:58PM (#44935692)
There is a very popular Python module called ocrmypdf. I used it to help my HOA and OCR’ing of old PDFs.

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

No LLMs required.

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Re:Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs by cess11 on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:43AM (#44938293)
It's nice, I've used it as a fallback text extraction method in an ETL flow that chugged through tens of thousands of corporate and legal PDF files.
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Re:Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs by dreamcompiler on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @12:17AM (#44948208)
20 years ago I tried in vain to get my HOA to use the virtual printer for PDF documents so they'd be searchable. The capability was built in to both Mac and Windows even way back then.

No luck. They just could not grasp it. So they kept using their process of printing out the file on paper and then scanning it back in as a PDF image file.

I finally quit trying. Now of course they've seen the light and are painstakingly OCRing all that old stuff.

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Re:Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs by firesteelrain on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:44AM (#44950512)
Ouch! I am on the BOD so as an IT/Engineering Professional I can influence things better
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