OCR

Extract text from scanned PDFs and image-based documents.

Skills
Document processing
4

What it does and how to use it

A skill that teaches Claude Code to do document processing tasks well. It is packaged knowledge the model uses whenever it is relevant.

Install the skill (command above).
In Claude Code, describe what you need - the skill turns on by itself when the context fits.
No commands to memorize: you talk in plain language and the skill does the rest.

Install (Claude Code)

mkdir -p .claude/skills/ocr && curl -fsSL https://doutorai.pt/data/lib/skills__ocr.md -o .claude/skills/ocr/SKILL.md

Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

# PDF OCR Processing Guide

Extract text from scanned PDFs and image-based documents.

## Quick start

```python
import pytesseract
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
from PIL import Image

# Convert PDF to images
images = convert_from_path("scanned.pdf")

# Extract text from each page
for i, image in enumerate(images):
    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image)
    print(f"Page {i+1}:\n{text}\n")
```

## Installation

### Install Tesseract

**macOS:**
```bash
brew install tesseract
```

**Ubuntu/Debian:**
```bash
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
```

**Windows:**
Download from: http

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