Idea: Give option to force OCR about zotero-ocr HOT 4 CLOSED

Actually, the plugin is currently processing every PDF regardless of whether it contains only images or also a text layer. Try it out yourself.

However, I would like to add an option, that PDFs with some text can be skipped (filtered out) for OCR processing. I imagine to do this as an option which can be check or not, but that is still a todo mentioned somewhere in the code.

BTW the plugin here does not use ocrmypdf.

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Thank you very much for your response.

Actually, the plugin is currently processing every PDF regardless of whether it contains only images or also a text layer. Try it out yourself.

This is true, totally my error as I didn't realise I had changed my language settings to German but was trying to process an english text.

However, I would like to add an option, that PDFs with some text can be skipped (filtered out) for OCR processing. I imagine to do this as an option which can be check or not, but that is still a todo mentioned somewhere in the code.
This seems very interesting, would really like to see it.

As I was wrong though, I will close this issue as it actually is a non-issue. Thank you for your time and the response!

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@opal06 For languages with Latin letters as English, German, etc. you can also try out script/Latin which usually works quite nice. Moreover, this then overcomes the potential issues that also in a German text you find French, Spanish, ... words e.g. for names.

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This is very useful information, thank you very much. I was trying to find out if there was multi language support just earlier today.

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