gImageReader VS naps2

On tesseract base here is a software to make a scan a text searchable pdf. It take a bit of time and can be a bit tedious but it does the work! https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/releases It does not work well on cursive writing of course. It's a bit less heavy code sided solution. Good luck!

I'm working with old newspaper PDFs to convert them into DOC formats. I'm having a great time with gImageReader by highlighting columns and converting them to plain text. Then I take that plain text into Libreoffice Writer (7.0.4.2) to clean up and save. If this were a book as opposed to a newspaper with ads and columns, it would have bee a lot easier to convert and format.

It would help to know a bit more of your usecase. If you're looking to just extract the text (ie, take all the textual content of your PDF and drop it into a separate text document), there are solutions like ABBYY Finereader and gImageReader. If you're looking to make PDFs searchable (keeping the scanned pages, but adding a text layer underneath so you can search and copy from them), there's NAPS2 (which has an additional command line tool for automation) and OCRmyPDF.

OpenSource OCR... for desktop users I like "gImageReader" URL: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader (Technically is GUI for tessaract)

gImageReader is the linux standard that I'm aware of. It's a GUI to Tessaeract, but IIRC you can use other models if you have them.

gImageReader as a simple OCR application

https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader ^^ seems like it has installers for different OS's

If you have a HP Printer there is scanning software program (Free and Open source) called Not Another PDF Scanner. https://www.naps2.com/ It's simple to use and works really good with HP printers unlike the software that comes with the printers. Everyone who wants to scan with a HP printers needs this software.

Brother DCP-L2550DW here. One of the cheapest b/w multifunction devices with automatic document feeder and reasonable print and scan performance. Works like a charm on Linux, Windows, Android, and IOS.

I am using it with [NAPS2](https://www.naps2.com/), which is brilliantly simple, multi-platform, free, and open-source.

If you want to add page, remove page, split, merge, reorder, re-orient all or individual pages, ... May I recommend the glorious NAPS2 [1] ?

It's meant as a scanning tool but works just fine without scanning just drag and drop a pdf on it.

It doesn't do in-page editing or annotation, it's "one layer above" that.

[1] https://www.naps2.com/

Tips: For PDF management/splitting/rotation/cropping ect before import: NAPS2 is a good tool (Windows, Linux, Mac). It also support ocr (same as paperless-ngx use) https://www.naps2.com/

To scan to image files, use the included Windows Fax & Scan app. To scan to PDF files, use NAPS2.

The software I use is: https://www.naps2.com/

If you are on windows this can scan and OCR using tesseract. https://www.naps2.com/

Try https://www.naps2.com/ It has Arabic support. Once installed with OCR settings, if you drap pdf onto app, it does OCR.