manisandro/gImageReader

A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

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gImageReader

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

Logo

Features

  • Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
  • Process multiple images and documents in one go
  • Manual or automatic recognition area definition
  • Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents
  • Recognized text displayed directly next to the image
  • Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking
  • Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents
  • International language support: Weblate, Desktop entry

Installation

Compilation

The steps for compiling gImageReader from source are documented in the wiki.

Support

If you encounter issues, please file a ticket in the issue tracker, or feel free to mail me directly at manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com. Be sure to also consult the FAQ.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, ideally in the form of pull-requests.

Translating

International language support contributions at Weblate and Desktop entry.

Translation status
c-plus-plus
gtk
hocr
hocr-documents
ocr
pdf-document
qt
scanner
tesseract-ocr

manisandro/gImageReader

A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

C++

2,004

2,154 commits

updated Sep 29, 2026

See the code

README

Translation status Github All Releases Actions Status

gImageReader

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

Logo

Features

  • Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
  • Process multiple images and documents in one go
  • Manual or automatic recognition area definition
  • Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents
  • Recognized text displayed directly next to the image
  • Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking
  • Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents
  • International language support: Weblate, Desktop entry

Installation

Compilation

The steps for compiling gImageReader from source are documented in the wiki.

Support

If you encounter issues, please file a ticket in the issue tracker, or feel free to mail me directly at manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com. Be sure to also consult the FAQ.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome, ideally in the form of pull-requests.

Translating

International language support contributions at Weblate and Desktop entry.

Translation status
c-plus-plus
gtk
hocr
hocr-documents
ocr
pdf-document
qt
scanner
tesseract-ocr

Project health

Overall

3.6/10

Maintained

6/10

Code review

2/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

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