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

• 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

• Source: Download from the releases page
• Windows: Download from the releases page
• Fedora: Available from the official repositories
• Debian: Available from the official repositories
• Ubuntu: Available from ppa:sandromani/gimagereader
• OpenSUSE: Available from OpenSUSE Build Service
• ArchLinux: Available from the community repositories

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

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.

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

gImageReader translations are hosted on weblate and are periodically merged into master.