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Best command-line OCR software for recognizing typed text over colorful background

I need to extract text from images like the one below: As you can see, the text is typed not handwritten. Moreover, the background is colorful. I've tried Tesseract OCR, and while it works some of ...
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Can I transform colors of scanned pdf files and reduce the scan resolution to save memory keeping an existing text layer from OCR?

I have a pile of pdf files which have been scanned long ago and which are already searchable (i.e. they went through OCR). However the light level and contrast settings were not optimal. Is it ...
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Image (having text-and-numbers) to text-file matching [:alnum:] nicely with some Unix -tool?

Suppose a photograph with text and numbers. I want to manage it in my editor with tools such as grep, standard text-processing things such as Vim's block-highlighting and also more advanced things ...
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Writing to picture which is scanned document

I have a scanned contract and I need to change only a few names and dates in the contract. It's easy to scan the document but impossible to ocr the document and open in *.doc format. Is there an ...
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