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gImageReader is a simple PyGtk front-end to tesseract.
Main features:
- Autodetection of tesseract / imagemagick installation path, configuration prompt shown to user if autodetection fails
- Configure (and store) custom paths
- Allows the user to select the part of the scanned image they want to be recognized.
- Allows to select the desired language.
- The program will autodetect installed dictionaries, currently searching for eng, deu, fra, ita, spa, nld.
- Recognized text displayed directly next to the image.
- Spellcheck enabled for the selected language in the output textfield (only works if corresponding dictionary installed)
- Append new recognized text to existing text.
- Remove line breaks in selected area of output.
- Save output buffer to text file.
The program depends on:
- python, pygtk, pycairo, gnome-python2-gtkspell
- tesseract (along with it's dictionaries)
- imagemagick
Copyright 2009 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com>