That scan is quite low resolution so it is hard to say how well any OCR will work. I'd expect better than garbage, but a lot of errors. The DPI is quite significant for checking whether a group of pixels is noise or a glyph. It implies the minimum font size. 72 or 96 is a good guess for screenshots (or 200 for a retina screen). One possibility is that ocrmypdf fails to encode Cyrillic under the current settings and available system fonts. If you have problems with all Cyrillic images (even high quality scans), you could try adding the --pdf-renderer=tesseract --output-type=pdf . That seems to work better for non-Latin languages. If you want to install the latest version instead of the Ubuntu version, you could use the --sidecar argument to see what text is being found to discern if the issue is PDF encoding or the image itself. Aside: The "just print" feature would not have been helpful here even if it worked. On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 at 05:11 david braun