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GImageReader

 71 likes

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • CH flagSwitzerland

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (12)
71likes
10comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  OCR
  2.  Image to text
  3.  PDF OCR
  4.  Annotate Screenshot

 Tags

  • img-to-text
  • character-recognition

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GImageReader information

  • Developed by

    CH flagSandro Mani
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3 (12 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    83 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about GImageReader, and it has gotten 71 likes

GImageReader was added to AlternativeTo by Bishoy on Mar 1, 2014 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Kate95
Aug 1, 2016
6

You can add multiple images and process them into one text. So, ideal for converting a complete book! Very rare in free OCR software under Windows.

And you can edit the text in this program too, if you like, or copy the text into your favourite texteditor. It took me a while to find this gem of a program.

Top Negative Comment
Alexandre Alexandre
Nov 4, 2023
0

Works only for images, not PDF of any nature.

Netkuszkusz
Jan 18, 2024

Convert your PDFs to images... duh.

Netkuszkusz
Jan 18, 2024
  • it has PDF mode.
TBayAreaPat
Sep 19, 2024
0

It would be nice to automatically open to OCR, like the program Photo Scan icon Photo Scan does, but Gimage is truly free.. and the image view is easy to see unlike with Photo Scan which clutters the screen space with an ad. Does not do a great job with mid-tone/mid-contrast type images.. seems none of my other capture programs do either. I know there's other programs that work better for that, but I don't which they are.

diogo_b013
Feb 17, 2022
0

Very simple, the best and uses tesseract engine fo OCR

Guest
Feb 8, 2022
0

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support.

enginellama
Dec 1, 2021
0

Best OCR for windows.

Luis Lobo
Sep 20, 2020
0

I did tests with English and it didn't work well. In Brazilian Portuguese where we use accents it got even worse.

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What is GImageReader?

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

Features:

  • Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
  • Process multiple images and documents in one go
  • Manual or automatic recognition area definition
  • Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents
  • Recognized text displayed directly next to the image
  • Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking
  • Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents