Convert Scanned PDFs to Markdown With Automatic OCR
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Got PDFs with scanned pages or text trapped inside images? PyMuPDF4LLM converts them straight to Markdown with automatic OCR.
In this tutorial, we cover:
• Automatic OCR — just call to_markdown and Tesseract handles scanned pages for you (requires Tesseract or RapidOCR installed).
• Hybrid OCR — for documents mixing selectable and non-selectable text, OCR runs only where it's needed, preserving original text quality.
• Disabling OCR — set use_ocr=False to skip OCR entirely, on all pages or specific ones.
• Multi-language support — pass Tesseract language codes (like deu for German) to OCR non-English documents. Just make sure the matching language data files are installed.
⏱️ Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Install & import PyMuPDF4LLM
0:42 Example 1: Scanned page → Markdown
1:09 Automatic OCR with Tesseract
1:26 Example 2: Hybrid OCR (mixed text)
2:19 Disabling OCR (use_ocr=False)
2:55 OCR for other languages
3:50 German example (deu)
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• PyMuPDF Documentation: https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest
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