trasrik/ocr_sidekick repository overview

⁠OCR Sidekick

⁠Intention

OCR Sidekick is a private project to automatically process PDF files coming from a scanner.

There are two main reasons for the project:

• The used scanner (Brother ADS-1700W) is not able to automatically apply OCR to a PDF.
• The OCR capability of Paperless (https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless⁠) seems not to be sufficient.

Therefore, a solution was needed to unattendedly process the PDF files and pass them on to the Paperless consumer. This includes:

• rectifying the scan
• applying OCR
• doing some guesswork regarding
  • sender / correspondent
  • document date
  • document title
  • tagging
• Generating a filename to best utilize the Paperless consumer

⁠The project

This project is mainly based on multiple open source projects:

• OCRmyPDF (https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF⁠)
• unreal4u Telegram API (https://github.com/unreal4u/telegram-api⁠)
• Debian Buster
• Poppler Utils
• ...

The main focus was on easy and unattended use, which led to a docker image controlled by config files. Most should be self-explanatory.