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PythonStale
CLI tool that checks whether PDF files are 'born-digital' (created directly from a digital source, with a real text layer) versus scanned images with no underlying text — a distinction that matters before running OCR or text extraction on a large batch of unknown-provenance PDFs. Scans single files or whole directories recursively, reporting results as TSV/CSV for easy filtering in a spreadsheet or further scripting.