&gt; Are there any open source tools that would slurp in content like this ...<p>Yes, tesseract[1] can do a pretty good job.  Here[2] is a blog post which describes using it to perform OCR on PDF&#x27;s.<p>As for searching the PDF contents, Solr[3] might be what you are looking for instead.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tesseract-ocr&#x2F;tesseract</a><p>2 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fransdejonge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;ocr-text-in-pdf-with-tesseract&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fransdejonge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;ocr-text-in-pdf-with-tessera...</a><p>3- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6694327&#x2F;indexing-pdf-with-solr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6694327&#x2F;indexing-pdf-with...</a>