Want to copy text from images or scanned PDFs on Linux? You can easily do this using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) with gImageReader.

What is gImageReader?

gImageReader is a simple graphical OCR tool powered by Tesseract, the most popular open-source OCR engine.

Installation

sudo apt install gimagereader-qt
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-hin

This installs:

• gImageReader GUI
• Tesseract OCR engine
• English + Spanish language support

How to Use

• Open gImageReader
• Load an image or PDF
• Select language
• Select text area
• Click Recognize
• Copy the text

Why Use It?

• Works offline
• No data upload
• Supports many languages
• Fast and free

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