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Title: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: gotLL on March 28, 2021, 04:31:18 PM

Hello all,
I'm wondering if there is any application - whether GUI or Terminal which can scan text in the form of an image - and while doing so search for a specific string.  On OCR with built in word search.   

Is any such thing available?

Sincere thanks
dw

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: Moltke on March 28, 2021, 04:57:59 PM

Quote from: gotLL on March 28, 2021, 04:31:18 PM

Hello all,
I'm wondering if there is any application - whether GUI or Terminal which can scan text in the form of an image - and while doing so search for a specific string.  On OCR with built in word search.   

Is any such thing available?

Sincere thanks
dw

Try gimagereader https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: bitsnpcs on March 28, 2021, 08:30:42 PM

I am not knowing about this technology, in a search I found this, hope it is interesting -

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder)

Video of it


https://vimeo.com/3760126

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: gotLL on March 28, 2021, 11:17:37 PM

Try gimagereader https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
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Thank you!
I installed gimageReader - and when I go into Synaptics it shows that it is installed.
But it does not appear on any of my GUI application list and I cannot initiate it via the terminal either
when I try gimageReader in the terminal - I get "command not found".

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: trinidad on March 29, 2021, 09:04:36 AM

Tesseract is the CLI application which is probably the most commonly used for ocr. Synaptic has the cli version and the language packs, or you can try the full Debian package below. The second link is to a help manual. It's been around for about 25 years.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/tesseract-ocr

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-tesseract/

TC

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: gotLL on March 29, 2021, 09:29:31 AM

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder)

Video of it

Thank you!
I was able to install and run OCRFeeder!
Much appreciate

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: gotLL on March 29, 2021, 09:36:03 AM

Quote from: trinidad on March 29, 2021, 09:04:36 AM

Tesseract is the CLI application which is probably the most commonly used for ocr. Synaptic has the cli version and the language packs, or you can try the full Debian package below. The second link is to a help manual. It's been around for about 25 years.

TC

Thank you!
Yes - I use Tesseract to convert images to text.
And I see the other aforementioned GUI apps have Tesseract built-in.

I think I have enough to go on now!
Thanks everyone  :-]

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: Moltke on March 29, 2021, 10:47:53 AM

Quote from: gotLL on March 28, 2021, 11:17:37 PM

Try gimagereader https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

Thank you!
I installed gimageReader - and when I go into Synaptics it shows that it is installed.
But it does not appear on any of my GUI application list and I cannot initiate it via the terminal either
when I try gimageReader in the terminal - I get "command not found".

Did you install ORC lang packages too? It didn't work for me either at first without having installed that.

Quote from: gotLL on March 29, 2021, 09:29:31 AM

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder)

Video of it

Thank you!
I was able to install and run OCRFeeder!
Much appreciate

Well, I see you solved it anyway. :)

Title: Re: OCR (optical character recognition) with word search?
Post by: bitsnpcs on March 29, 2021, 01:46:28 PM

Quote from: gotLL on March 29, 2021, 09:29:31 AM

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder)

Video of it

Thank you!
I was able to install and run OCRFeeder!
Much appreciate

You are Welcome dw :)