gImageReader

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

Features:

• Automatic page layout detection
• User can manually define and adjust recognition regions
• Import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
• Supports multipage PDF documents
• Recognized text displayed directly next to the image
• Basic editing of output text, including search/replace and removing line breaks
• Spellchecking for output text (if corresponding dictionary installed)

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

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