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How to prepare a scanned PDF before converting it with Book to Skill

Run OCR on scanned books so the extractor can read the text.

  • Research
  • Intermediate
  • 30 minutes
  • From the README
  • Any agent

Who it is forSomeone whose book PDF is a scan without selectable text.

The problemScanned PDFs have no extractable text.

The outcomeA text-searchable PDF ready to convert.

What you need first

  • An agent that supports skills
  • OCR (ocrmypdf) for scanned PDFs

Steps

  1. Install ocrmypdf
  2. Run ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf
  3. Run Book to Skill on output.pdf
  4. Check the extracted chapters

Prompt for your agent

OCR <scan.pdf> with ocrmypdf, convert the result with book-to-skill, and report the number of chapters extracted.

Caveat. OCR quality limits the quality of the generated skill.

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