pdf_sprinkles: sprinkles text in your PDFs

pdf_sprinkles remotely OCRs a PDF with Google Cloud Document AI, and returns the result as a PDF with searchable text.

It runs on the command-line or as a web server. The server version can be deployed to App Engine easily.

pdf_sprinkles has only been tested with English-language text, but it should work for most European languages supported by the Document AI API today. It is known not to work with RTL languages and with CJK scripts currently.

Installation

pdf_sprinkles is experimental, so it’s not packaged yet. To install: