gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract.
Tesseract is a popular free and open source optical character recognition engine.
gImageReader is also free and open source software.
Key Features
- Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots.
- Process multiple images and documents in a single action.
- 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.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
Support: FAQ, Wiki
Developer: Sandro Mani and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
gImageReader is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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