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

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 AUR (Gtk version) and AUR (Qt version)

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.

Especially welcome are translations. These can be created as follows:

1. Copy po/gimagereader.pot file to po/<language>.po (i.e. po/de.po)
2. Translate the strings in po/<language>.po
3. Add the language to po/LINGUAS