This project is discontinued as OCRmyPDF now has an official Docker container, see https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF#installing-the-docker-image

A docker container for OCRmyPDF

This is a docker container for OCRmyPDF.

Installation

docker pull paulstaab/ocrmypdf

Usage

To ocr a pdf, call

docker run -t -i -v "</path/to/pdf>:/home/docker/" paulstaab/ocrmypdf \
  OCRmyPDF <additional options> <pdf> <out.pdf>

where

• </path/to/pdf> is a placeholder for the absolute path to the pdf,
• <pdf> is the name of the pdf file (without it's path),
• <out.pdf> is the file to which the ocred document will be written and
• <additional options> are optional parameters for OCRmyPDF (see docker run -t -i paulstaab/ocrmypdf OCRmyPDF -h)