gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
- 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)
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
Contributions are always welcome, ideally in the form of pull-requests.
Especially welcome are translations. These can be created as follows:
- Copy
po/gimagereader.potfile topo/<language>.po(i.e.po/de.po) - Translate the strings in
po/<language>.po - Add the language to
po/LINGUAS