ocr-to-excel 0.1.1

Convert DepEd OCR PDFs to Excel.

DepEdPDFtoExcel

Convert DepEd OCR PDFs to Excel using Ghostscript + Tesseract OCR.

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Ghostscript (for PDF to image conversion)
• Tesseract OCR

Quick start

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python ocr_to_excel.py

Automated dependency install (Windows)

This script installs Ghostscript and Tesseract using winget.

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
./scripts/install_dependencies.ps1

Optional: set user env vars after install (paths may vary by version):

./scripts/install_dependencies.ps1 -SetEnv

If winget is missing, install App Installer from Microsoft Store and retry.

Environment variables

• TESSERACT_CMD - path to tesseract.exe (optional)
• GS_PATH - path to gswin64c.exe (optional)
• OCR_DPI - image DPI (default 300)
• CROP_TOP_RATIO - top crop ratio (default 0.2)
• CROP_BOTTOM_RATIO - bottom crop ratio (default 0.9)

Output

Generated Excel files are placed in outputs/excel/.