PyPDFOCR - Tesseract-OCR based PDF filing

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This program will help manage your scanned PDFs by doing the following:

• Take a scanned PDF file and run OCR on it (using the Tesseract OCR software from Google), generating a searchable PDF
• Optionally, watch a folder for incoming scanned PDFs and automatically run OCR on them
• Optionally, file the scanned PDFs into directories based on simple keyword matching that you specify
• Evernote auto-upload and filing based on keyword search
• Email status when it files your PDF

More links:

• Blog @ virantha.com <http://virantha.com/category/pypdfocr.html>__
• Documentation @ gitpages <http://virantha.github.com/pypdfocr/html>__
• Source @ github <https://www.github.com/virantha/pypdfocr>__

Usage:

Single conversion:

::

    pypdfocr filename.pdf

    --> filename_ocr.pdf will be generated

If you have a language pack installed, then you can specify it with the
``-l`` option:

::

    pypdfocr -l spa filename.pdf

Folder monitoring:

::

pypdfocr -w watch_directory

--> Every time a pdf file is added to `watch_directory` it will be OCR'ed

Automatic filing:

To automatically move the OCR'ed pdf to a directory based on a keyword,
use the -f option and specify a configuration file (described below):

::

    pypdfocr filename.pdf -f -c config.yaml

You can also do this in folder monitoring mode:

::

    pypdfocr -w watch_directory -f -c config.yaml

Filing based on filename match:

If no keywords match the contents of the filename, you can optionally allow it to fallback to trying to find keyword matches with the PDF filename using the -n option. For example, you may have receipts always named as receipt_2013_12_2.pdf by your scanner, and you want to move this to a folder called 'receipts'. Assuming you have a keyword receipt matching to folder receipts in your configuration file as described below, you can run the following and have this filed even if the content of the pdf does not contain the text 'receipt':

::

pypdfocr filename.pdf -f -c config.yaml -n

Configuration file for automatic PDF filing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The config.yaml file above is a simple folder to keyword matching text file. It determines where your OCR'ed PDFs (and optionally, the original scanned PDF) are placed after processing. An example is given below:

::

target_folder: "docs/filed"
default_folder: "docs/filed/manual_sort"
original_move_folder: "docs/originals"

folders:
    finances:
        - american express
        - chase card
        - internal revenue service
    travel:
        - boarding pass
        - airlines
        - expedia
        - orbitz
    receipts:
        - receipt

The target_folder is the root of your filing cabinet. Any PDF moving will happen in sub-directories under this directory.

The folders section defines your filing directories and the keywords associated with them. In this example, we have three filing directories (finances, travl, receipts), and some associated keywords for each filing directory. For example, if your OCR'ed PDF contains the phrase "american express" (in any upper/lower case), it will be filed into docs/filed/finances

The default_folder is where the OCR'ed PDF is moved to if there is no keyword match.

The original_move_folder is optional (you can comment it out with # in front of that line), but if specified, the original scanned PDF is moved into this directory after OCR is done. Otherwise, if this field is not present or commented out, your original PDF will stay where it was found.

If there is any naming conflict during filing, the program will add an underscore followed by a number to each filename, in order to avoid overwriting files that may already be present.

Evernote upload:

Evernote authentication token
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To enable Evernote support, you will need to `get a developer token for
your Evernote
account. <https://www.evernote.com/api/DeveloperToken.action>`__. You
should note that this script will never delete or modify existing notes
in your account, and limits itself to creating new Notebooks and Notes.
Once you get that token, you copy and paste it into your configuration
file as shown below

Evernote filing usage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

To automatically upload the OCR'ed pdf to a folder based on a keyword,
use the ``-e`` option instead of the ``-f`` auto filing option.

::

    pypdfocr filename.pdf -e -c config.yaml

Similarly, you can also do this in folder monitoring mode:

::

    pypdfocr -w watch_directory -e -c config.yaml

Evernote filing configuration file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The config file shown above only needs to change slightly. The folders
section is completely unchanged, but note that ``target_folder`` is the
name of your "Notebook stack" in Evernote, and the ``default_folder``
should just be the default Evernote upload notebook name.

::

    target_folder: "evernote_stack"
    default_folder: "default"
    original_move_folder: "docs/originals"
    evernote_developer_token: "YOUR_TOKEN"

    folders:
        finances:
            - american express
            - chase card
            - internal revenue service
        travel:
            - boarding pass
            - airlines
            - expedia
            - orbitz
        receipts:
            - receipt

Auto email
~~~~~~~~~~

You can have PyPDFOCR email you everytime it converts a file and files
it. You need to first specify the following lines in the configuration
file and then use the ``-m`` option when invoking ``pypdfocr``:

::

    mail_smtp_server: "smtp.gmail.com:587"
    mail_smtp_login: "[email protected]"
    mail_smtp_password: "PASSWORD"
    mail_from_addr: "[email protected]"
    mail_to_list: 
        - "[email protected]"
        - "[email protected]"


Advanced options
################

Fine-tuning Tesseract/Ghostscript/others

You can specify Tesseract and Ghostscript executable locations manually, as well as the number of concurrent processes allowed during preprocessing and tesseract. Use the following in your configuration file:

::

tesseract:
    binary: "/usr/bin/tesseract"
    threads: 8

ghostscript:
    binary: "/usr/local/bin/gs"

preprocess:
    threads: 8

Handling disk time-outs

If you need to increase the time interval (default 3 seconds) between new
document scans when pypdfocr is watching a directory, you can specify the following
option in the configuration file:

::
    
    watch:
        scan_interval: 6

Installation
############

Using pip
~~~~~~~~~

PyPDFOCR is available in PyPI, so you can just run:

::

    pip install pypdfocr

Please note that some of the 3rd-party libraries required by PyPDFOCR wiill
require some build tools, especially on a default Ubuntu system.  If you run
into any issues using pip install, you may want to install the
following packages on Ubuntu and try again:

- gcc
- libjpeg-dev
- zlib-bin
- zlib1g-dev
- python-dev

For those on **Windows**, because it's such a pain to get all the PIL
and PDF dependencies installed, I've gone ahead and made an executable
called
`pypdfocr.exe <https://github.com/virantha/pypdfocr/blob/master/dist/pypdfocr.exe?raw=true>`__

You still need to install Tesseract, GhostScript, etc. as detailed below in
the external dependencies list.

Manual install
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Clone the source directly from github (you need to have git installed):

::

    git clone https://github.com/virantha/pypdfocr.git

Then, install the following third-party python libraries:

-  Pillow (Python Imaging Library) https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/3.1.x/
-  ReportLab (PDF generation library)
   http://www.reportlab.com/opensource/
-  Watchdog (Cross-platform fhlesystem events monitoring)
   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog
-  PyPDF2 (Pure python pdf library)

These can all be installed via pip:

::

    pip install Pillow
    pip install reportlab
    pip install watchdog
    pip install pypdf2


You will also need to install the external dependencies listed below.

External Dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PyPDFOCR relies on the following (free) programs being installed and in
the path:

-  Tesseract OCR software https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
-  GhostScript http://www.ghostscript.com/
-  ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/
-  Poppler http://poppler.freedesktop.org/  (`Windows <http://sourceforge.net/projects/poppler-win32/>`__)

Poppler is only required if you want pypdfocr to figure out the original PDF resolution
automatically; just make sure you have ``pdfimages`` in your path.   Note that the 
`xpdf <http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html>`__ provided ``pdfimages`` does not work for this, 
because it does not support the ``-list`` option to list the table of images in a PDF file.

On Mac OS X, you can install these using homebrew:

::

    brew install tesseract
    brew install ghostscript
    brew install poppler
    brew install imagemagick

On Windows, please use the installers provided on their download pages.

\*\* Important \*\* Tesseract version 3.02.02 or newer required
(apparently 3.02.01-6 and possibly others do not work due to a hocr
output format change that I'm not planning to address). On Ubuntu, you
may need to compile and install it manually by following `these
instructions <http://miphol.com/muse/2013/05/install-tesseract-ocr-on-ubunt.html>`__

Also note that if you want Tesseract to recognize rotated documents (upside down, or rotated 90 degrees)
then you need to find your tessdata directory and do the following:

::

    cd /usr/local/share/tessdata 
    cp eng.traineddata osd.traineddata 

``osd`` stands for Orientation and Script Detection, so you need to copy the .traineddata
for whatever language you want to scan in as ``osd.traineddata``.  If you don't do this step, 
then any landscape document will produce garbage

Disclaimer
##########

While test coverage is at 84% right now, Sphinx docs generation is at an
early stage. The software is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

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