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Crop using bounding box.

Use with --deskew and --clean for optimal results. Crop using bounding box

# Command line (also callable via subprocess) ocrmypdf --output-type pdf --pdfa-image-compression jpeg --deskew --clean input_scanned.pdf output_searchable.pdf Crop using bounding box

from pypdf import PdfMerger def merge_pdfs_smart(pdf_list: list, output_path: str): merger = PdfMerger() for pdf in pdf_list: merger.append(pdf, import_outline=False) # outlines can be heavy merger.write(output_path) merger.close() Crop using bounding box

Use fitz.Document with page-level caching and structured block extraction.

Use rlextra (commercial) or open-source xhtml2pdf with reportlab backend.

Use PdfMerger with file handles (not PdfWriter ) to avoid memory blowouts.