how to preserve page structure( table, layout) while doing OCR

[ranjith-3330]

hi team

for the general pdf (not images)

i am able to extract the table content, and redact the information what ever i needed, it is working fine,

now we have scanned pdf

i used OCR extact the information

full_tp = page.get_textpage_ocr(
flags=0,
dpi=300,
full=True,
language='eng',
tessdata=r"C:\Users\3330\AppData\Local\Programs\Tesseract-OCR\tessdata"

after doing OCR completely lost the layout

how to preserve the layout like tables structure while doing OCR, so that i can iterate the table and redact the rows which ever not needed.

redaction is not applied correctly after applying OCR

search_terms = ["Partner Acknowledged", "0060584486", "5,555,390.00", "0.00"]

for term in search_terms:
rectangles = full_tp.search(term) # find all occurrences of the term
if rectangles:
print(f"Found '{term}' at positions: {rectangles}")
for rect in rectangles:
# Mark the area for redaction
page.add_redact_annot(rect)
else:
print(f"'{term}' not found on this page.")

page.apply_redactions()

for general pdf everything is working fine.

search_terms = ["Partner Acknowledged", "0060584486", "5,555,390.00", "0.00"]

for term in search_terms:
rectangles = full_tp.search(term) # find all occurrences of the term
if rectangles:
print(f"Found '{term}' at positions: {rectangles}")
for rect in rectangles:
# Mark the area for redaction
page.add_redact_annot(rect)
else:
print(f"'{term}' not found on this page.")

page.apply_redactions()

how to tackle below cases while using OCR

1) preserving structure (Tables , layout )

2) applying reduction correctly

[jamie-lemon]

Hi @ranjith-3330 , please could you post this discussion on our forum page here: https://forum.pymupdf.com and include your PDF if possible?