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OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents. Unfortunately, PDFs can be difficult to modify. OCRmyPDF makes it easy to apply image processing and OCR (recognized, searchable text) to existing PDFs.

...At its core, the project provides a clean, modern UI where you can rearrange pages, annotate text, insert images, fill forms, and export to multiple formats, all without needing a heavyweight commercial PDF suite. But beyond manual editing, it also offers a programmable layer so developers can write scripts to batch process documents, generate templated reports, or extract structured data from PDFs for integration in workflows. The design emphasizes quality and compatibility: output PDFs render accurately across readers, preserve metadata, and support interactive elements like hyperlinks and form fields.

...Support for PDF outlines for document navigation. Low level PDF features, allowing users to create custom extensions by dropping down all the way to the PDF object tree layer. (Mostly useful to those with knowledge of the PDF specification). If you are looking for a highly flexible PDF document generation system, Prawn might be the tool for you. It is not a reporting tool or a publishing toolchain, though it could be fairly easily used to build those things.