Questions tagged [ocr]
Optical Character Recognition, the process of converting printed or handwritten text or images of text into digitally encoded text on a computer (so that, for example, it can be reproduced, machine-translated, reformatted, edited, distributed, used as input to software such as text-to-speech and so on)
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How can I extract text from images?
How can I extract text from images?
I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; ...
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What's the best, simplest OCR solution?
I'd like to scan a good amount of papers I have lying around, with the least possible hassle. I would like to convert them to images using Simple Scan, then convert them to text using OCR. Is there a ...
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How can instantaneously extract text from a screen area using OCR tools?
In Ubuntu 12.10, if I type
gnome-screenshot -a | tesseract output
it returns:
** Message: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.
How can I select a ...
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How to turn a pdf into a text searchable pdf?
I have a number of scanned documents in pdf and I want to be able to search them. How can I do that?
Essentially I have to OCR the pdf and then blend the extracted text back into a new pdf. I have ...
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Adding OCR info to a PDF
I have a good quality scan of a document; such scan is in pdf format.
How can I add ocr information to the pdf, so that it becomes searchable? By searchable I mean that the goal is that when viewing ...
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How do I install a new language pack for Tesseract on 16.04
Just installed gscan2pdf v1.3.9 as well as Tesseract. As for the latter, first it appeared at the bottom of my Installed Software list, but now it seems to be gone, although still working (I think).
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How do I edit text in a scanned .jpeg?
I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document.
After scanning the document, I have a .jpeg with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload.
I have never done this ...
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How to add OCRed text to original pdf in gscan2pdf? [closed]
I am new to gscan2pdf 0.9.31, and just used it to OCR a scanned pdf.
After saving the pdf, the OCRed text is stored on the top left corner. However I wish each OCRed character to be added to exactly ...
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How can I use OCR on a partial screen capture to get text?
When I was still using Windows I loved using the capture2text OCR program to grab Japanese kanji from manga and dump them into jisho.org, and was wondering how I could get the same functionality on ...
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