#1092076 RFA: pdfsandwich -- Tool to generate "sandwich" OCR pdf files

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Tobias Frost
Date:
2026-03-15 20:47:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1092076#5
Date:
2025-01-04 10:58:54 UTC
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I request an adopter for the pdfsandwich package.

The package description is:
 pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain
 only images (no text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR)
 and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images.
 pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR
 scanned books or journals.
 .
 It is able to recognize the page layout even for multicolumn text.
 .
 Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following
 binaries: convert, unpaper, gs (only for psd resizing), hocr2pdf (for
 tesseract < 3.03), and tesseract.
#1092076#14
Date:
2026-03-15 20:31:00 UTC
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Hi, I'll take over maintenance. Will need sponsors, but that should not
be an issue.

Best regards,

Pieter
#1092076#19
Date:
2026-03-15 20:45:03 UTC
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Control: owner -1 !