PDF OCR Converter

A simple desktop app that converts scanned/image PDFs to searchable text PDFs.

Features

• 📄 Convert multiple PDFs at once
• 🌍 Multi-language OCR support (English, Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese)
• ⏭️ Skip pages that already have text
• 🎨 Modern dark-themed interface

Download

📥 Download PDF_OCR_Converter.exe

Note: Requires Tesseract OCR to be installed. The app will prompt you if Tesseract is not detected.

Installation (For Developers)

1. Install Tesseract OCR

Windows:

• Download installer from: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki
• Run the installer and note the installation path
• Add Tesseract to your PATH environment variable

Or use Chocolatey:

choco install tesseract

2. Install Python Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Language Packs (Optional)

For Arabic support:

# The Windows installer includes language selection
# Or download language files from: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata

Usage

1. Run the app:

   python ocr_app.py

2. Click "Select PDF Files" to choose your PDFs

3. Select the OCR language

4. Click "Convert to Searchable PDF"

5. Find output files with _ocr suffix in the same folder

Output

The converted files are saved in the same directory as the input with _ocr appended to the filename:

• document.pdf → document_ocr.pdf