# Xberg Extracting With Ocr Use when extracting text from scanned PDFs, photographed pages, or images that have no... - Repository: https://github.com/xberg-io/xberg (9506 stars) - Category: Engineering - License: MIT - Last updated: 2026-11-01 - Runs scripts: no, instructions only ## Install Claude Code: `npx skills add xberg-io/xberg --skill xberg-extracting-with-ocr -g -a claude-code -y` Codex: `npx skills add xberg-io/xberg --skill xberg-extracting-with-ocr -g -a codex -y` Cursor: `npx skills add xberg-io/xberg --skill xberg-extracting-with-ocr -g -a cursor -y` Gemini CLI: `npx skills add xberg-io/xberg --skill xberg-extracting-with-ocr -g -a gemini-cli -y` Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add xberg-io/xberg` ## Description Use when extracting text from scanned PDFs, photographed pages, or images that have no embedded text layer. Covers OCR backends, language packs, force-OCR, and performance tuning. ## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data) # Extracting with OCR Use this when a document is image-based: scanned PDFs, photographed pages, screenshots, JPEG/PNG/TIFF with text. Xberg auto-OCRs raster images and auto-detects PDFs that lack a text layer. Force it on when extraction returned empty/garbled text from a PDF that "looks" textual. ## When to force OCR - Extraction returned an empty `content` field, but the file opens visually. - The PDF text layer is junk (copy-paste from a viewer produces gibberish). - You want consistent output across mixed scanned + digital PDFs. ```bash xberg extract scan.pdf --force-ocr=true xberg extract scan.pdf --ocr=true --ocr-language eng ``` If a page has an unreliable text layer, `--force-ocr=true` re-rasterizes and runs OCR on every page. ## Backends Tesseract is the default and ships with the CLI, no extra install. Other backends are opt-in: The rest: https://github.com/xberg-io/xberg/blob/HEAD/plugin/.cursor-plugin/skills/xberg-extracting-with-ocr/SKILL.md