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jlsutherland/doc2text

Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk. Python module available via pip. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/jlsutherland/doc2text · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3657
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2101
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1278 stars · 101 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

doc2text is a Python library that extracts high-quality text from poorly scanned PDFs by correcting resolution, cropping, and skew before OCR. It uses OpenCV and tesseract to detect text blocks and process documents in bulk.

Use cases

  • extract text from poorly scanned pdfs
  • ocr scanned documents in bulk
  • fix skew and resolution before ocr
  • build text corpora from pdf files
  • detect text blocks in scanned images
  • preprocess scans for tesseract

When to choose

  • you need to OCR low-quality or skewed scanned PDFs on Linux
  • you want to build research text corpora from scanned documents
  • you want automatic scan correction (crop, deskew, resolution) before OCR

When to avoid

  • you need multi-column or table extraction support
  • you need cross-platform support beyond Ubuntu Linux
  • you need a stable, actively maintained library
  • you only need OCR of clean, high-quality PDFs

Facets

library · maturity experimental

ocr image-processing pdf parser computer-vision pdf computer-vision files python cli ocr-preprocessing scanned-documents text-extraction bulk-processing tesseract natural-language-processing linux

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