Shrink PDF and make text searchable and copy-able with OCRmyPDF and Ghostscript
6 July, 2023 - 11:59
Create a copy of a PDF with searchable and copy-able text with OCRmyPDF. Specify language with for example -l dan
. --sidecar
outputs the text in a separate text file.
ocrmypdf inputpdf.pdf output.pdf --sidecar
Compress PDF with Ghostscript.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
A PDF can get reduced from 14 MB to 2 MB with this method, with hardly any loss of quality. -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook
adjusts output quality.