winget install --id=SandroMani.gImageReader -e
A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
gImageReader is a Gtk/Qt front-end for Tesseract OCR designed to simplify optical character recognition (OCR) tasks on Linux systems. It provides a user-friendly interface for importing documents and images, processing them for text extraction, and exporting the results in various formats.
Key Features:
Audience & Benefit: Ideal for Linux users requiring optical character recognition, gImageReader offers a straightforward and reliable solution for extracting text from scanned documents, images, or PDFs. Its ability to handle multiple formats and provide post-processing options makes it suitable for both personal and professional OCR needs.
gImageReader can be installed via winget on Windows and is available through various Linux package managers.
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
The steps for compiling gImageReader from source are documented in the wiki.
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.
Contributions are always welcome, ideally in the form of pull-requests.
International language support contributions at Weblate and Desktop entry.