MicrosoftThanks, Anatoly, for fixing the code.
If the input file is a JPG…the code is able to create a searchable PDF as output.
PS C:\Users\XXX> python c:\temp\fr_generate_searchable_pdf.py c:\temp\handwritten-note.jpg
Loading input file c:\temp\handwritten-note.jpg
Starting Azure Form Recognizer OCR process...
Azure Form Recognizer finished OCR text for 1 pages.
Generating searchable PDF...
Searchable PDF is created: c:\temp\handwritten-note.jpg.ocr.pdf
PS C:\Users\XXX>
If the input file is a PDF…I’m getting the following error message….
PS C:\Users\XXX> python c:\temp\fr_generate_searchable_pdf.py c:\temp\Test.pdf
Loading input file c:\temp\Test.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 568, in pdfinfo_from_path
proc = Popen(command, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1024, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1493, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\temp\fr_generate_searchable_pdf.py", line 40, in <module>
image_pages = convert_from_path(input_file)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 127, in convert_from_path
page_count = pdfinfo_from_path(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 594, in pdfinfo_from_path
raise PDFInfoNotInstalledError(
pdf2image.exceptions.PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?
PS C:\Users\<XXX>>
