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Common error messages
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Page already has text
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.. code::
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ERROR - 1: page already has text! – aborting (use --force-ocr to force OCR)
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You ran ocrmypdf on a file that already contains printable text or a hidden OCR text layer (it can't quite tell the difference). You probably don't want to do this, because the file is already searchable.
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As the error message suggests, your options are:
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- ``ocrmypdf --force-ocr`` to :ref:`rasterize <raster-vector>` all vector content and run OCR on the images. This is useful if a previous OCR program failed, or if the document contains a text watermark.
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- ``ocrmypdf --skip-text`` to skip OCR and other processing on any pages that contain text. Text pages will be copied into the output PDF without modification.
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Input file 'filename' is not a valid PDF
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OCRmyPDF passes files through qpdf, a program that fixes errors in PDFs, before it tries to work on them. In most cases this happens because the PDF is corrupt and
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truncated (incomplete file copying) and not much can be done.
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You can try rewriting the file with Ghostscript or pdftk:
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- ``gs -o output.pdf -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite input.pdf``
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- ``pdftk input.pdf cat output output.pdf``
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Sometimes Acrobat can repair PDFs with its `Preflight tool <https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/correcting-problem-areas-preflight-tool.html>`_.
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