Frog
OCRmyPDF
| Frog | OCRmyPDF | |
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| 3 | 77 | |
| 481 | 12,002 | |
| 1.9% | 2.2% | |
| 8.8 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Frog
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
The similar app I am using is Frog (https://getfrog.app) with great sucesss.
- How about OCR support in new screenshot tool and loupe for gnome 43 (whenever it gets released)
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Best OCR tool that works as smooth as Frog from ElementoryOS
However i cannot build their package https://github.com/TenderOwl/Frog for some reason. I have to try to get it working.
OCRmyPDF
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
I recommend running any such PDFs through OCRmyPDF.
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
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A better document viewer
If by "like a photocopy" you mean the file contains images of text rather than text, the MacOS viewer presumably does OCR on the images. I don't know if there's a Linux document viewer with that capability built-in, but a quick search turned up the standalone tool OCRmyPDF.
- Gibts ein (CLI) tool, das Kontrast und Helligkeit von gescannten Textdokumenten dynamisch anpasst?
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OCR for a full pdf on Neoreader
For anyone interested I solved the problem by first ocr files through the free and open source software ocrmypdf avaible here
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ELI5: why is PDF such a widespread text format, instead of a format that's actually easier to edit?
ocrmypdf is nice for stuff like that.
- Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
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massive crop and OCR newspaper
Use imagemagick to convert them to PDF and ocrmypdf to straighten and OCR. See this explanation.
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OCR pdf and just keep the OCR text
Fair enough, maybe this might work for you, it should seperate the text from image anyway and if you have Adobe acrobat it should be able delete the background too with the edit function. It may already be able to do that if you haven't tried it
What are some alternatives?
zuckbot - A virtual reincarnation of Mark Zuckerberg encapsulated in a desktop application built on Python.
PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)
easy-mqtt-handler - Easy MQTT Handler is a MQTT Client implemented in Python3 that will connect to a MQTT Broker, listening for freely configurable messages and reacting by executing arbitrary pre-defined commands. It comes with a Qt5-based GUI.
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
cozy - 🎧 Listen to audio books 📚 on Linux
tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API
gtock - Fork of GNOME Task Scheduler
Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
quicktile - Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)
invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices
chromecast_mpris - 📺 Control Chromecasts from Linux and D-Bus
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF