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Text to OCR - offline - Krikor - 12-12-2019
Hi,
Could anyone indicate software that converts offline text (txt, pdf, etc) to OCR, free to Windows?
I found options for online or mobile platform use.
Any compatible with Gimp?
Thank you.
RE: Text to OCR - offline - Ofnuts - 12-13-2019
What kind of OCR? There are OCR fonts, there is a Gnu barcode generator...
RE: Text to OCR - offline - Krikor - 12-13-2019
(12-13-2019, 10:55 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: What kind of OCR? There are OCR fonts, there is a Gnu barcode generator...I just wish I could remove the text from images (scanned books like jpg, tiff, etc) and translate them (paste into translator).
On mobile I have this feature, but for desktop-win, I only find online options, and many unreliable.
RE: Text to OCR - offline - Ofnuts - 12-14-2019
The FOSS software that seems the most used for this in the Linux world is called "Tesseract". A version for Windows can be found here.
RE: Text to OCR - offline - rich2005 - 12-14-2019
The problem with a basic Tesseract, is it is command line. Obviously the best way if OCR-ing a whole book. One problem is loss of formatting, tend to get long lines of text with no breaks and no headings etc.
I use it in Linux for small 'screen captured' text images using a GUI (prefer YAGF but not working in 'buntu 18.04 so gImageReader) .
For a screen capture always need some pre-processing in Gimp, scaling up 200% - 300%, clean background etc.
There is a Tesseract for Windows with GUI here: https://ocr.space/blog/p/free-ocr-windows.html
And a quick try-out in a Win10 VM https://i.imgur.com/H7fvKCu.jpg and that is typical, some post OCR corrections needed. Still better than typing out the whole thing
RE: Text to OCR - offline - Krikor - 12-14-2019
(12-14-2019, 12:33 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: A version for Windows can be found here.
(12-14-2019, 10:26 AM)rich2005 Wrote: There is a Tesseract for Windows with GUI here: https://ocr.space/blog/p/free-ocr-windows.htmlOfnuts and Rich2005,
Already downloaded and installed both files (Tesseract and a9t9).
Take it easy later I will try them on.
Thanks a lot for the help!