OCR Tesseract

A Docker image that adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files using PDFix SDK and Tesseract OCR.

Table of Contents

• OCR Tesseract
  • Getting started
  • Usage
  • Commands
  • Arguments
  • Examples
  • Help & support
  • Licenses

Getting started

You need Docker installed. The first run downloads the image and may take longer than later runs.

Usage

Mount a folder into the container and run a subcommand:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data -w /data pdfix/ocr-tesseract:latest <command> [options]

Commands

• ocr: OCR a scanned PDF (PDF → PDF)

Arguments

ocr

Option	Required	Type / expected value	Description
--input, -i	yes	Path to an existing .pdf file	Input PDF
--output, -o	yes	Path for the output .pdf file	Output PDF
--lang	no	Tesseract language code string (e.g. eng); empty uses default handling	OCR language
--name	no	String (PDFix account license name)	PDFix license name
--key	no	String (PDFix account license key)	PDFix license key

Examples

OCR a scanned PDF:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data -w /data pdfix/ocr-tesseract:latest \
  ocr --name "${LICENSE_NAME}" --key "${LICENSE_KEY}" \
  -i /data/scanned.pdf -o /data/ocr.pdf --lang eng

Help & support

For PDFix SDK licensing or issues, contact support@pdfix.net.

Licenses

• PDFix Terms
• Tesseract OCR — Apache 2.0