#gimagereader

Use gImageReader to Extract Text From Images and PDFs on Linux

 gImageReader is a front-end for Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine. Tesseract was originally developed at HP and then was open-sourced in 2006.

 Basically, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine lets you scan texts from a picture or a file (PDF). It can detect several languages by default and also supports scanning through Unicode characters.

 However, the Tesseract by itself is a command-line tool without any GUI. So, here, gImageReader comes to the rescue to let any user utilize it to extract text from images and files.

 See https://itsfoss.com/gimagereader-ocr/

 #technology #opensource #PDF #OCR #gImageReader

If you have an ebook and are too lazy to read, let Linux read it aloud to you. If you have a PDF with selectable text then use the program pdftotext. If the PDF contains images, then use OCR (optical character recognition) with gimagereader or tesseract. To read use espeak and mbrola.