gImageReader

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

Features

• Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
• Process multiple images and documents in one go
• Manual or automatic recognition area definition
• Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents
• Recognized text displayed directly next to the image
• Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking
• Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents
• International language support: Weblate, Desktop entry

Installation

• Source: Download from the releases page
• Windows: Download from the releases page
• Fedora: Available from the official repositories
• Debian: Available from the official repositories
• Ubuntu: Available from ppa:sandromani/gimagereader
• OpenSUSE: Available from OpenSUSE Build Service
• ArchLinux: Available from the extra repositories: gimagereader-gtk and gimagereader-qt
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Compilation

The steps for compiling gImageReader from source are documented in the wiki.

Support

If you encounter issues, please file a ticket in the issue tracker, or feel free to mail me directly at manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com. Be sure to also consult the FAQ.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, ideally in the form of pull-requests.

Translating

International language support contributions at Weblate and Desktop entry.

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