// Read docs & web pages
OCRmyPDFv17.13.0
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
Open source Maintained For agents
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OCRmyPDF is OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched.
Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to read docs & web pages.
01How to start
- 1Read the official README for requirements and permissions.
- 2Install it from the official package registry:
pip install ocrmypdf - 3Tell your agent the command exists (e.g. in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) so it knows when to call it.
02Alternatives & comparison
Compare side by side → EasyOCR Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc. ★ 30k MinerU Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. ★ 82k PyMuPDF PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents. ★ 11k tesseract Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) ★ 77k MarkItDown Microsoft tool converting office documents to Markdown for LLMs. ★ 191k