How to read a pdf file which has images in it

If there's a text layer use LibreOffice to convert to txt (InterSystems IRIS wrapper), for OCR you'll need some thirdparty tool, for example Tesseract can be easily used with Embedded Python.

UPD: LibreOffice can't extract text from PDFs unfortunately. Here's Embedded Python solution:

Class User.PDF
{

/// zw ##class(User.PDF).GetText("/tmp/example.pdf", .text)ClassMethod GetText(file, Output text) As%Status
{
  try {
    #dim sc As%Status = $$$OKkill text
    set dir = $system.Util.ManagerDirectory()_ "python"do##class(%File).CreateDirectoryChain(dir)
    // pip3 install --target /data/db/mgr/python --ignore-requires-python typing==3.10.0.0try {
      set pypdf2 = $system.Python.Import("PyPDF2")
    } catch {
      set cmd = "pip3"set args($i(args)) = "install"set args($i(args)) = "--target"set args($i(args)) = dir
      set args($i(args)) = "PyPDF2==2.10.0"set args($i(args)) = "dataclasses"set args($i(args)) = "typing-extensions==3.10.0.1"set args($i(args)) = "--upgrade"set sc = $ZF(-100,"", cmd, .args)
      set pypdf2 = $system.Python.Import("PyPDF2")
    }
    return:'$d(pypdf2) $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError, "Unable to load PyPDF2")
    kill pypdf2
    set text = ..GetTextPy(file)
  } catch ex {
    set sc = ex.AsStatus()
  }
  quit sc
}

ClassMethod GetTextPy(file) [ Language = python ]
{
  from PyPDF2 import PdfReader

  reader = PdfReader(file)
  text = ""for page in reader.pages:
    text += page.extract_text() + "\n"return text
}

}