Ochre is an application for extracting text from PDFs. First, Ochre will attempt OCR with Gosseract. If this fails, Ochre will attempt to extract the text with Poppler utils' pdftotext. Ochre can be run in the CLI with ochre-naive --input *input directory* --output *output directory*

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• Go (version 1.15 or higher recommended)
• Poppler utilities for pdftoppm and pdftotext
• Tesseract-OCR (for gosseract)

Follow these steps to get your development environment running:

Download and install Go by following the instructions on the official Go website.

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Using Homebrew:

brew install poppler

Windows users can download pre-compiled binaries of Poppler from here. Extract the files and add the directory containing pdftoppm and pdftotext to your system's PATH.

Tesseract-OCR is required by gosseract. Installation instructions for various platforms can be found in the Tesseract GitHub repository.

Clone this repository to your local machine

Run the following command inside the project directory:

go get -d ./...

To run the program, use the following command:

if not build, run go build ./ at the root of this project then: ochre-naive -input "/path/to/input/directory" -output "/path/to/output/directory"

alternatively: go run main.go -input "/path/to/input/directory" -output "/path/to/output/directory"

Replace "/path/to/input/directory" and "/path/to/output/directory" with the actual paths to your input and output directories, respectively.