| # Directory containing TIFF files | |
| INPUT_DIR="atreatiseonlawp00chitgoog_tif" | |
| OUTPUT_PDF="output_searchable.pdf" | |
| TEMP_DIR="temp_ocr" | |
| # Create a temporary directory to store processed files | |
| mkdir -p "$TEMP_DIR" | |
| # Process each TIFF file | |
| for file in "$INPUT_DIR"/*.tif; do | |
| # Extract the filename without extension | |
| filename=$(basename "$file" .tif) | |
| # Run Tesseract on each file and output a PDF for each page | |
| tesseract "$file" "$TEMP_DIR/$filename" -l eng pdf | |
| done | |
| # Combine all individual page PDFs into a single PDF | |
| if command -v pdfunite >/dev/null 2>&1; then | |
| # If pdfunite is available (from poppler-utils), use it | |
| pdfunite "$TEMP_DIR"/*.pdf "$OUTPUT_PDF" | |
| else | |
| # Fallback to using ImageMagick's `convert` if `pdfunite` isn't available | |
| convert "$TEMP_DIR"/*.pdf "$OUTPUT_PDF" | |
| fi | |
| # Clean up temporary directory | |
| rm -r "$TEMP_DIR" | |
| echo "Searchable PDF created as $OUTPUT_PDF" |