For those who run the script and it gives an error, the cause is likely that you're using a newer version of Pdfmerger so to fix that you should first use "from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter, PdfMerger" and then ctrl + f to find where it says "merger = PdfFileMerger()" and change it to "merger = PdfMerger()" that should fix the problem :). I hope the OP sees this and posts an updated comment/python file. This video was incredibly useful and well done. Much thanks
Thank you so much, it worked! For those having trouble, when you open cmd, make sure you are in the directory of the folder that contains the pdf file (e.g., C:\Users\James> cd OneDrive\Desktop\PDFFolderName). Then that is when you do the pip install PyPDF2.
I've caught in many erroros and struggled with it for almost half an hour. I've found a few changes about the script and some tips. so I'd like to tell other guys to help. 1. As many guys have mentioned, PdfFileMerger changed into PdfMerger. So we have to replace it. 2. And also, I'd got a parameter error. I thought it seens to be occured at converting phase which is using ImageMagick. so I searched about it and found that 'ImageMagick CLI command is 'magick' on Windows. So I'd changed and It finally worked. But 'convert' command worked at this clip, so I recommend it if 'convert' command were not working. 3. if you want to OCR with a specific language that is not English, find this line tesseract = 'tesseract "' + combined_pic + '" "' + combined_pic + '-ocr" PDF' and insert a language option; -l LANGUAGE_WHAT_YOU_WANT between '-ocr" and "PDF', so result is; tesseract = 'tesseract "' + combined_pic + '" "' + combined_pic + '-ocr" -l LANGUAGE_WHAT_YOU_WANT PDF' if you want to OCR with multiple languages use + between languages; -l LANG01+LANG02 I hope it could help other guys who are in trouble.
On Windows env, sometimes you could exeperience 'parameter error'. if so, it could be a solution that change 'convert' into 'magick' in this script. - open the script, go to 21st line(it starts with magick = 'convert -density.....') , and change the word 'convert' into 'magick' - This is not a package, so if there were changes on some component, we should adjust them by ourselves. I hope it helps:)
Thank you so much! # IF YOU HAD AN ERROR WITH invalid parameter -150 close the files and then do it again. It might take also some time depending on file size.
@2:23 - After years of going from Win3.1 to win95 to win98 to winXP-Vista-7-8- and now Win10 - I can say this about PATH Variables: In order to keep everything separate and looking nice and working in the easiest way possible - you should always make a NEW path variable named "XXX-path" (like Tesseract-path) and put the path into THAT variable - AND THEN - edit the PATH variable and just add "%Tesseract-path%" to that variable. In this way, you can easily change the "Tesseract-path" variable and not muck up the PATH variable. Now - YES - it does make a NEW variable BUT - put it in the TOP area and not the bottom area so it is only invoked when you open a CLI (Command Line Interface or DOS window). So - the thing to think about is - what if they change where they put a program (or what if they change the name every single time they come out with a new version [like "myprog v1", then "myprog v2", then "myprog this is where it goes v3"]?). With this method all you need to do is to do the pathway selection, go to Environment Variables, find your "Tesseract-path" variable - and change the path there. It would then be automatically changed in the PATH variable. Or what if you wanted TWO versions of Tesseract? Why that's easy! You just put the new version in "Tesseract v2.x-path" and add that in to the PATH variable. Anyway - this is how I do it. It makes life simple (or simpler) if you always do it the same way. And now - back to the video. :-) Which is excellent by the way. :-)
I get the following error when I try to open the ocr-combined file: "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be opened because it has no pages"
@@niksimeo04 idk somehow i tried again after a few days it worked....try restarting your pc after u have installed alll dependencies variables...etc Also just see if that pdf isnt open by another app...like adobe
very well explained video, congratulations. Unfortunately it doesn't working for me yet... I have the error message that "Tesseract doesn't been recognized as a internal or external command". Think i'll try to use the python wrapper for tesseract, "pytesseract". Or maybe i'll see the tesseract documentation. Another trouble is the execution time... It takes several minutes per page. Does the conversion necesarily be in a png format? Thanks!
This video is great. I tried it. However I got stuck on the procedure you were describing on timelapse 4:35 when I needed to save the covert.py to a certain folder 'ocr-pdf'. Because I did not find such folder in my desktop (I wonder how it happened that you do have it.) Therefore where am I supposed to save the 'covert.py'? Nevetheless, I simply tried to save it just in my desktop, and then I followed the rest of the instructions. Fortunately it worked, but only once and I am mystified. It never worked again when I tried converting another scanned pdf files. I suspect its because I did not save it in folder'ocr-pdf'on my desktop. How would I have such folder? Is there any other workaround to be able for the 'covert.py to consistently work? Thanks in advance.😊
I am having serious trouble here. I don't want to screw up my laptop trying to get this to work. I have followed the instructions to a tee. There is a blip at 4:57. It appears to jump over a step. Either way, I followed it and this is what it said: "...Desktop\OCR-PDF>pip install PyPDF2 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Oh yay! So I tried it another way... "Desktop\OCR-PDF>convert.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "...Desktop\OCR-PDF\convert.py", line 4, in from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyPDF2'" So I read TWoboS's steps and that didn't work. I read in Oliver's thread below that some got it to work after rebooting, but not for me. I read that you have to add the PATH to the Desktop folder, but that didn't work either. My computer is completely up to date. Is there another way to do this? Did something get left out?
i just have a problem: Languages ! Is Tesseract auto recognize to choose the right language or we must edit the convert.py file maunaly ? Because it only works well with english documents, special languages so bad 😅 Thanks !
Amazing! quick and precise video. Windows 10 here I followed everything but when I click convert.py this keeps on running for hours and hours.I did it pdf for just 1 page and still running 30 minutes passed. Imagine 400+ new folder created in ocr pdf folder. Please help.
Please help ! After run convert.py, i got this error: "Error, could not create PDF output file: Permission denied" it's also create Folder with png images and a converted pdf file, but can not open it Thanks for your very detail video !
Solved !!!!!! just allow tesseract.exe in you anti-virus program Anyway, Thank you very much again ! For your time to making very detailed video for me or anyone, who dont know about coding to transform all opensource public data out there, to become very easy to do Yes, very well explained video. Thankful !!
i run the script but it's creating a lot of folders, all empty, it's just a 20 pages PDF, what could i be doing wrong? everything was done just as the video says
okay i changed some stuff but idk what did i do, now it is converting to PDF with OCR but it's creating one PDF per page (over 20 files lol) and also as PNGs. So it is "working" i could just merge them, all but any idea why is this happening?
Hey. Great video! Very simple and basic. I've done all the steps as you mentiond. Sadly it's not working for me. I opend the convert.py with my Pycharm and got an error message saying : invalid parameter - 150. Could you help me to fix that? If any more output is needed let me know. Greetings :)
Thaks. Another very simplest way is just install *"gImageReader"* that you can get for Windows from the GitHub repository *"gImageReader"* by "manisandro". For Linux just use the software Store
Does it overlay the text onto the pdf pages or does it just export the unformatted text as a pdf? I'm struggling to find one that overlays the text on the format of the pdf automatically :(
For those who run the script and it gives an error, the cause is likely that you're using a newer version of Pdfmerger so to fix that you should first use "from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter, PdfMerger" and then ctrl + f to find where it says "merger = PdfFileMerger()" and change it to "merger = PdfMerger()" that should fix the problem :). I hope the OP sees this and posts an updated comment/python file. This video was incredibly useful and well done. Much thanks
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Thank you so much, it worked! For those having trouble, when you open cmd, make sure you are in the directory of the folder that contains the pdf file (e.g., C:\Users\James> cd OneDrive\Desktop\PDFFolderName). Then that is when you do the pip install PyPDF2.
Danke! Beste Anleitung überhaupt. Kurz, knapp auf den Punkt! Einfach Perfekt!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate how much effort you put into the video, especially with the captions too!
I've caught in many erroros and struggled with it for almost half an hour. I've found a few changes about the script and some tips. so I'd like to tell other guys to help.
1. As many guys have mentioned, PdfFileMerger changed into PdfMerger. So we have to replace it.
2. And also, I'd got a parameter error. I thought it seens to be occured at converting phase which is using ImageMagick. so I searched about it and found that 'ImageMagick CLI command is 'magick' on Windows. So I'd changed and It finally worked. But 'convert' command worked at this clip, so I recommend it if 'convert' command were not working.
3. if you want to OCR with a specific language that is not English, find this line
tesseract = 'tesseract "' + combined_pic + '" "' + combined_pic + '-ocr" PDF'
and insert a language option;
-l LANGUAGE_WHAT_YOU_WANT between '-ocr" and "PDF', so result is;
tesseract = 'tesseract "' + combined_pic + '" "' + combined_pic + '-ocr" -l LANGUAGE_WHAT_YOU_WANT PDF'
if you want to OCR with multiple languages use + between languages;
-l LANG01+LANG02
I hope it could help other guys who are in trouble.
Really thank you about your comment, you have a beer paid!
i don't understand what did u mean at num 2
On Windows env, sometimes you could exeperience 'parameter error'. if so, it could be a solution that change 'convert' into 'magick' in this script. - open the script, go to 21st line(it starts with magick = 'convert -density.....') , and change the word 'convert' into 'magick' -
This is not a package, so if there were changes on some component, we should adjust them by ourselves. I hope it helps:)
Thank You for providing all the links of downloads ,It worked for me
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an absolute G, thanks for saving lifes
Thank you so much! # IF YOU HAD AN ERROR WITH invalid parameter -150 close the files and then do it again. It might take also some time depending on file size.
OMG! It work. Thanks for doing this video and for all of the software.
if your having trouble with the pip install part you need to add that script to your paths
@2:23 - After years of going from Win3.1 to win95 to win98 to winXP-Vista-7-8- and now Win10 - I can say this about PATH Variables: In order to keep everything separate and looking nice and working in the easiest way possible - you should always make a NEW path variable named "XXX-path" (like Tesseract-path) and put the path into THAT variable - AND THEN - edit the PATH variable and just add "%Tesseract-path%" to that variable. In this way, you can easily change the "Tesseract-path" variable and not muck up the PATH variable. Now - YES - it does make a NEW variable BUT - put it in the TOP area and not the bottom area so it is only invoked when you open a CLI (Command Line Interface or DOS window). So - the thing to think about is - what if they change where they put a program (or what if they change the name every single time they come out with a new version [like "myprog v1", then "myprog v2", then "myprog this is where it goes v3"]?). With this method all you need to do is to do the pathway selection, go to Environment Variables, find your "Tesseract-path" variable - and change the path there. It would then be automatically changed in the PATH variable. Or what if you wanted TWO versions of Tesseract? Why that's easy! You just put the new version in "Tesseract v2.x-path" and add that in to the PATH variable. Anyway - this is how I do it. It makes life simple (or simpler) if you always do it the same way. And now - back to the video. :-) Which is excellent by the way. :-)
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What an Amazing script and video ! Thank you very helpful. May Allah bless you more.
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Thanks for making this!!!
Mil gracias! Funcionó perfecto 😃😃😃
me podrias decir si te abren bien los pdfs, a mi me salen de 1kb y dañados.
Thank you
I get the following error when I try to open the ocr-combined file: "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be opened because it has no pages"
I am facing the same issue ,,did u solve it?
@@akashgeorge5433 me too
@@niksimeo04 idk somehow i tried again after a few days it worked....try restarting your pc after u have installed alll dependencies variables...etc
Also just see if that pdf isnt open by another app...like adobe
@@akashgeorge5433 thank you. I will try this, maybe it does need a restart. thank you for your time
@@niksimeo04 welcome....telll me if it works for u
Hi. Your script ran and just created an empty subfolder for every page of my PDF. The PDF itself is untouched. Could you advise what happened here?
I installed pip with python, however, It gives pip is not a recognized command
look at my comment below, I think the solution is to add python to your envonmental variables like they do for tesseract in the video
@@catcrandell4189 thanks
very well explained video, congratulations. Unfortunately it doesn't working for me yet... I have the error message that "Tesseract doesn't been recognized as a internal or external command". Think i'll try to use the python wrapper for tesseract, "pytesseract". Or maybe i'll see the tesseract documentation.
Another trouble is the execution time... It takes several minutes per page. Does the conversion necesarily be in a png format?
Thanks!
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This video is great. I tried it. However I got stuck on the procedure you were describing on timelapse 4:35 when I needed to save the covert.py to a certain folder 'ocr-pdf'. Because I did not find such folder in my desktop (I wonder how it happened that you do have it.) Therefore where am I supposed to save the 'covert.py'? Nevetheless, I simply tried to save it just in my desktop, and then I followed the rest of the instructions. Fortunately it worked, but only once and I am mystified. It never worked again when I tried converting another scanned pdf files. I suspect its because I did not save it in folder'ocr-pdf'on my desktop. How would I have such folder? Is there any other workaround to be able for the 'covert.py to consistently work? Thanks in advance.😊
It's just a file he created on his desktop, you can create a folder and name it the same thing.
My document is ins spanish, how can I choose the language to use?
I am having serious trouble here. I don't want to screw up my laptop trying to get this to work. I have followed the instructions to a tee. There is a blip at 4:57. It appears to jump over a step. Either way, I followed it and this is what it said: "...Desktop\OCR-PDF>pip install PyPDF2
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Oh yay! So I tried it another way... "Desktop\OCR-PDF>convert.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "...Desktop\OCR-PDF\convert.py", line 4, in
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyPDF2'"
So I read TWoboS's steps and that didn't work. I read in Oliver's thread below that some got it to work after rebooting, but not for me. I read that you have to add the PATH to the Desktop folder, but that didn't work either. My computer is completely up to date. Is there another way to do this? Did something get left out?
same problem here, idk how to solve it
i just have a problem: Languages !
Is Tesseract auto recognize to choose the right language or we must edit the convert.py file maunaly ?
Because it only works well with english documents, special languages so bad 😅
Thanks !
Hi . have you figured out some solution to make this work for languages other than English ?
Cool!)
Amazing! quick and precise video. Windows 10 here I followed everything but when I click convert.py this keeps on running for hours and hours.I did it pdf for just 1 page and still running 30 minutes passed. Imagine 400+ new folder created in ocr pdf folder. Please help.
I need to ocr a big file too, how did it go? XD
Please help !
After run convert.py, i got this error:
"Error, could not create PDF output file: Permission denied"
it's also create Folder with png images and a converted pdf file, but can not open it
Thanks for your very detail video !
Solved !!!!!!
just allow tesseract.exe in you anti-virus program
Anyway, Thank you very much again !
For your time to making very detailed video for me or anyone, who dont know about coding to transform all opensource public data out there, to become very easy to do
Yes, very well explained video.
Thankful !!
hey, my cmd open for a second and closes right after when i try to run the script, doesn't output nothing. anny thoughts on what could it be?
okay nevermind i got it to work running from terminal inside VSCode (don't ask me how)
i run the script but it's creating a lot of folders, all empty, it's just a 20 pages PDF, what could i be doing wrong? everything was done just as the video says
okay i changed some stuff but idk what did i do, now it is converting to PDF with OCR but it's creating one PDF per page (over 20 files lol) and also as PNGs. So it is "working" i could just merge them, all but any idea why is this happening?
Can I use this script to convert to another language?
to make it work I had to change (PdfFileMarger to PdfMerger)
# from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger
from PyPDF2 import PdfMerger
# merger = PdfFileMerger()
merger = PdfMerger()
Hey. Great video! Very simple and basic. I've done all the steps as you mentiond. Sadly it's not working for me. I opend the convert.py with my Pycharm and got an error message saying : invalid parameter - 150. Could you help me to fix that? If any more output is needed let me know. Greetings :)
I am also getting same error. Did you find solution.
@@mahapavanablereboot did the Job
@@southpaw168 Yes for me too worked rebooting
Does this only work with English? My output pdf is empty and the CLI shows invalid argument for each image.
Any doubt ask copy the code and asky chat GPT it work for me
It hasn't worked for me, I followed each step perfectly. even the routes that are not mentioned but are seen in the cmd of the video.
This is the start of a comment thread.
last step is too fast i didnt understand.
how anyone can run pip install command in cmd.
Pip also needs to be added to System Environment Path，otherwise you cannot run it in cmd directly.
Good tutorial but you didnt show how to install Pip
I think it comes with Python
Thaks. Another very simplest way is just install *"gImageReader"* that you can get for Windows from the GitHub repository *"gImageReader"* by "manisandro". For Linux just use the software Store
Finally something that works for me, thanks!
Does it overlay the text onto the pdf pages or does it just export the unformatted text as a pdf? I'm struggling to find one that overlays the text on the format of the pdf automatically :(