PDF OCR Extractor

Use this skill to extract text from scanned PDFs or image-based PDFs that lack a native text layer. It's completely free, doesn't utilize third-party APIs, and offers unlimited usage. It renders PDF pages to images and runs optical character recognition (OCR).

Dependencies

This skill requires:

1. System Binary: tesseract (along with required language data packs like chi_sim or eng).
2. Python Packages: pypdfium2, pytesseract, and Pillow.

Note: Do not run automated pip install commands at runtime. Rely on the user or the environment to pre-install the dependencies defined in the metadata block.

Quick Start

Create a Python script (e.g., extract.py) in a temporary directory to handle the extraction safely: