microsoft / microsoft/markitdown

text in the images in a pdf is not recognizable

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Description

I was trying to extract text from PDF which resulted in extracting only text but what about the text which are present in the form of images, it is not working !!!

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The issue names PDF text extraction but no source file, test, or entry point. Start by locating the repository's PDF conversion path and checking how image content is currently handled. Done means text embedded in PDF images is extracted into the resulting Markdown, with coverage for the reported case.

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Tech stack
python
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tooling
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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