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Gennaro Arguzzi
Asked: 2020-07-21 09:16:51 +0800 CST

OCR of a pdf with gocr

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I installed gocr, with the command suggested by the ubuntu terminal (sudo apt install gocr), in order to carry out an OCR recognition of the text in a pdf file. How could I use it? I didn't find a tutorial to do this.

ocr 20.04

1 Answers

  1. On newer Ubuntu versions it was replaced with tesseract-ocr: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/tesseract-ocr/

    For simple usage with a GUI, I recommend using gImageReader: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/releases

    installation:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sandromani/gimagereader
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimagereader tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
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