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trilobite

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OCR (optical character recognition) GUI programs?

I don't need to extract text from pictures very often, but when I do, I end up using a phone. Any recommendations for an OCR package? Haven't found. GUI version of Tesseract might be good if exists.

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PackRat

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Re: OCR (optical character recognition) GUI programs?

Look through this thread. Started as scanner apps, but dovetailed to OCR.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8987

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: OCR (optical character recognition) GUI programs?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … R_software

Not tried any myself though.

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johnraff

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Re: OCR (optical character recognition) GUI programs?

I eventually found tesseract-ocr gave pretty good results, tied into Xsane or simple-scanner.
In the thread PackRat linked:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 86#p138586
and a guide:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9164

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