Ubuntu 24.04 - PDF with images and no OCR layer.

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If you try and process a PDF that is made from images with no OCR text layer or no other text then pdf-narrator is unable to extract any text and gets a bit upset with a few error messages in the log as the .txt file is empty.

Useful tip:

Use ocrmypdf to add an OCR layer to existing PDF files:

ocrmypdf --force-ocr --output-type pdf --rotate-pages --deskew --clean input.pdf output.pdf