---
name: "hocr2pdf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "exactimage"
version: "1.2.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hocr2pdf"
---

# hocr2pdf(1)

hOCR to PDF converter of the ExactImage toolkit

## NAME

hocr2pdf - hOCR to PDF converter of the ExactImage toolkit

## SYNOPSIS

**hocr2pdf** \[*option*...\] {**-i** \| **--input**} *input-file*  {**-o** \| **--output**} *output-file*

**hocr2pdf** {**-h** \| **--help**}

## DESCRIPTION

ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library. Unlike many other library frameworks it allows operation in several color spaces and bit depths natively, resulting in low memory and computational requirements.

**hocr2pdf** creates well layouted, searchable PDF files from hOCR (annotated HTML) input obtained from an OCR system.

## OPTIONS

- **-i** *file*, **--input** *file*

  Read image from the specified file. Note that input hOCR is read from the standard input.

- **-o** *file*, **--output** *file*

  Save output PDF to the specified file.

- **-n**, **--no-image**

  Don't place the image over the text. By default the text layer is hidden behind the image.

- **-s**, **--sloppy-text**

  Sloppily place text, group words, do not draw single glyphs.

- **-r** *n*, **--resolution** *n*

  Override resolution of the input image to *n* dpi. The default resolution (if not specified in the input file) is 300 dpi.

- **--quality**

  Quality setting used for writing compressed images. Integer range 0-100, the default is 75

- **--compress**

  Compression method for writing images e.g. ascii85, hex, flate, jpeg, jpeg2000, ... Default based on bit-depth

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display help text and exit.

## EXAMPLE

```
$ hocr2pdf -i scan.tiff -o test.pdf < cuneiform-out.hocr
```

## SEE ALSO

[**exactimage**(7)](/exactimage/7.md)

## AUTHORS

**Jakub Wilk** \<jwilk@debian.org\>

Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.

**https://exactcode.com/opensource/exactimage/**

This manual page incorporates texts found on the ExactImage homepage.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.