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Many office machines creates pdf as result of scan instead of  image. Unfortunately not always they includes also text layer for copy&paste or they include text layer based on default language of scanner and not document language. In such cases you can use  tesseract to crete "searchable pdf".

 First part of processing scanned images si fix page orientation and possible image skew.

 Simply python (only PIL) tesseract box file visualisation.

OCR process can last for a while, so monitoring progress could help. Here is simple example how to do in console app.

 You can quietly update your community version of Visual studio.

Do you need to OCR OpenCV image? No problem with tesseract.

 Do you want to create own OCR application? It is easy.