Add ocr pdf script

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diff --git a/extras/mkocrpdf-cuneform.sh b/extras/mkocrpdf-cuneform.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Makes a pdf with embedded text as extracted by cuneiform
+#
+# Requires imagemagick, pdftk, hocr2pdf and cuneiform
+
+for i in `ls *png`
+do
+	a=`basename $i .png`
+	echo processing $a
+
+	convert $i $a.bmp
+	cuneiform -f hocr -o $a.html $a.bmp
+	rm -f $a.bmp
+
+	# hocr2pdf has a habit of segfaulting, so fall back to convert
+	hocr2pdf -i $i -o $a.pdf < $a.html || convert $i $a.pdf
+	rm -f $a.html
+done
+
+pdftk *pdf cat output book.pdf