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🔹 OCR Accuracy for Scanned PDFs
👤 Client: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Member since ****
💰 Price: $122
🚩 Problem: Ensure accurate transcription of 63 scanned PDF documents into a single plain text file.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Format] - Single .txt file (UTF-8 encoding)
[Method] - OCR with exact text copy
[Security] - No additional security measures required
[Stack] - Python (Tesseract) for OCR, Text editor for processing

Workflow:

Download all 63 PDF files from the provided Dropbox link.
Install Tesseract and necessary libraries in a Python environment.
Iterate through each file, perform OCR using Tesseract, and extract text.
For each document, prepend the header with Document ID, Date, and Place as specified.
Concatenate all headers and texts into one .txt file maintaining numerical scan order.
Ensure accuracy by following strict rules: no corrections, keep paragraph breaks, replace unreadable words with [illegible].
Save the final .txt file in UTF-8 encoding.