Searchable Pdf Python Packages

platen-document

Standalone Python SDK for local PDF and document processing — OCR, text and structured extraction, Markdown, searchable PDFs, and PDF markup.

veriscript

Offline document restoration: photo/scan in, searchable PDF + honest review flags out. Devanagari (Nepali/Hindi) first. Local, no cloud calls.

fastocr-sdk

Python SDK for the FastOCR Document OCR API: extract text and searchable PDFs from scanned PDFs in 100+ languages.

handle-scanned-pdf

A wrapper on top of python-OCR tools such as pytesseract and easyocr, to recognize and extract text embedded in images. Also, convert scanned-PDFs to text searchable PDFs.

pdfocrer

A Python script that runs Paddle OCR on a possibly unsearchable PDF to make it searchable.