How to extract hocr file from PDF?

Question

I'm creating an OCR-ed PDF through tesseract:

tesseract input.tif out pdf

But I also need the hocr and txt files. Recent versions of tesseract already solved this but because it requires compiling both leptonica and tesseract, I'm not entirely comfortable with it.

I can use pdftotext to extract the text file but I can't seem to find a way to extract hocr from the PDF.

Answer 1

You can simply run the following command to create both pdf and hocr at the same time.

tesseract input.tif out pdf hocr