Google OCR script edited by Saunak Roy Chowdhury from https://github.com/tshrinivasan/google-ocr-python

Follow the Google API authentication as describe here for Drive OCR ..

https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/samples/samples

See a demo video on installation, setup, usage in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9TnD67oj4&feature=youtu.be

1. install gdcmdtools from https://github.com/tienfuc/gdcmdtools and complete the setup

2. Use "Ghost Script" tool to convert a pdf into individual images.

example:

gs -q -DNOPAUSE -DBATCH -r400 -SDEVICE=jpeg -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=abcd%d.jpg abcd.pdf

3. Download google-ocr.py script at same JPG image folder

4. Run python google-ocr.py "abcd" where abcd name of out text file.