Adds a searchable OCR text layer beneath page images and produces a validated PDF/A file: deskews crooked pages, optionally cleans images pre-OCR, optimizes/compresses images, recognizes 100+ languages via Tesseract, rotates misrotated pages, edits output metadata, parallelizes across CPU cores, and processes multi-thousand-page files in place.
Real output from running this tool against a sample PDF, as part of PDFog's open-source PDF tooling benchmark.
Input: sample-brochure.pdf
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uv run ocrmypdf --skip-text --sidecar "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.pdf" "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.pdf"Output: sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.pdf
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uv run ocrmypdf --skip-text --sidecar "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.txt" "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.txt"Output: sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python.txt
[OCR skipped on page(s) 1]--force-ocr: rasterizes every page and re-OCRs from scratch, ignoring any existing text layer — a genuinely different extraction path than --skip-text above (which trusts existing text and only OCRs image-only pages).
uv run ocrmypdf --force-ocr --sidecar "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.pdf" "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.pdf"Output: sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.pdf
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--force-ocr: rasterizes every page and re-OCRs from scratch, ignoring any existing text layer — a genuinely different extraction path than --skip-text above (which trusts existing text and only OCRs image-only pages).
uv run ocrmypdf --force-ocr --sidecar "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.txt" "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.txt"Output: sample-brochure--ocrmypdf-python--force-ocr.txt
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WILL DO THE BEST FOR YOU
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apartment Fa; 2 wy 1 @m 1 $1,000,000
Prince Cascading
1234-5678
Additional Information
Land Size 1171m2
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Melbourne
Central
WARM BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT
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