# Need Help Separating PDF Content into Paragraphs Using OCR

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/need-help-separating-pdf-content-into-paragraphs-using-ocr/77374>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/need-help-separating-pdf-content-into-paragraphs-using-ocr/77374 "2024-03-14T08:03:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/need-help-separating-pdf-content-into-paragraphs-using-ocr/77374/1 "2024-03-14T08:03:34Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m a student with a large volume of PDF books and articles to process. I’d like to develop a code solution to automatically separate the content into distinct paragraphs based on their indentation. Here’s my challenge:

Indentation Issue: Simple PDF text extraction doesn’t reliably capture the paragraph structure.  
OCR Requirement: I believe I’ll need to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to accurately identify paragraph breaks.  
Questions:

Are there existing models or libraries that can handle this type of OCR-based paragraph separation?

If I need to build something, could you provide guidance on how to start? I’m open to any programming language  
suggestions.

Thank you for your help!