Open Source OCR and PDF compression at the Internet Archive - Merlijn Wajer
Channel: OpenFest Bulgaria
Date: 24/08/2021

Archive PDF tools is the software used to generate highly compressed PDFs (with selectable text layers) at the Internet Archive based on digitized content (books, mostly). The same techniques can easily be applied to any archives one might have at home. This talk will cover the creation of the Internet Archive PDF tools, technical challenges encountered, and discuss the underlying algorithms.