https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

c-plus-plus gtk hocr hocr-documents ocr pdf-document qt scanner tesseract-ocr

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A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
• Owner: manisandro
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2014-02-10T02:11:14.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-26T06:09:33.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T00:43:11.598Z (30 days ago)
• Topics: c-plus-plus, gtk, hocr, hocr-documents, ocr, pdf-document, qt, scanner, tesseract-ocr
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 11.3 MB
• Stars: 1,618
• Watchers: 74
• Forks: 190
• Open Issues: 55
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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# gImageReader

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to [tesseract-ocr](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).

![Logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/gimagereader.jpg)

## 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](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gimagereader/), [Desktop entry](./data/gimagereader.appdata.xml.in)

## Installation

- ![Source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/source.png) **Source**: Download from the [releases page](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/releases)

- ![Windows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/windows.png) **Windows**: Download from the [releases page](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/releases)

- ![Fedora](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/fedora.png) **Fedora**: Available from the [official repositories](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gimagereader)

- ![Debian](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/debian.png) **Debian**: Available from the [official repositories](https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gimagereader)

- ![Ubuntu](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/ubuntu.png) **Ubuntu**: Available from [ppa:sandromani/gimagereader](https://launchpad.net/~sandromani/+archive/ubuntu/gimagereader)

- ![OpenSUSE](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/opensuse.png) **OpenSUSE**: Available from [OpenSUSE Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:sandromani)

- ![ArchLinux](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manisandro/gImageReader/gh-pages/icons/arch.png) **ArchLinux**: Available from the extra repositories: [gimagereader-gtk](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gimagereader-gtk) and [gimagereader-qt](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gimagereader-qt)

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## Compilation

The steps for compiling gImageReader from source are documented in the [wiki](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/wiki/Compiling-gImageReader).

## Support

If you encounter issues, please file a ticket in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/issues), or feel free to mail me directly at `manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com`. Be sure to also consult the [FAQ](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/wiki/FAQ).

## Contributing

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

## Translating

International language support contributions at [Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gimagereader/) and [Desktop entry](./data/gimagereader.appdata.xml.in).