gImageReader is a free and open source OCR (optical character recognition) tool. This program can read the text in an image and convert them to editable text. gImageReader is similar to ABBYY FineReader in Windows system. gImageReader is available on Windows and Linux. gImageReader can read JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIFF or PDF and convert to editable text.
The new gImageReader 2.93 is now available for download. Get more information about this version here. This tutorial is going to show you how to install gImageReader 2.93 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. Open Terminal and paste these commands to install.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sandromani/gimagereader
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimagereader tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
Once finished, you can start using the program via Dash menu.
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