Do someone know a good OCR tool I don't have to pay for and that actually recognizes text?

[antemortem@mastodon.social]

Do someone know a good OCR tool I don't have to pay for and that actually recognizes text?
#ocr #tool #writing #pdf #foss #opensource #askfedi

[nihalxkumar@fosstodon.org]

@antemortem ffmpeg of OCR: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

[nils_ramsperger@mastodon.social]

@antemortem I use #tesseract embedded in #paperlessngx. It has become quite apt. There should be some kind of standalone app.

[tio@social.trom.tf]

@antemortem Normcap dynobo.github.io/normcap/ we ship our TROMjaro Linux with it and I always use it.
RE: tromjaro.com/

[antemortem@mastodon.social]

@nils_ramsperger is it difficult to install/use? I don't have that much informatics skills (I know however how to follow tutorials)

[nils_ramsperger@mastodon.social]

@antemortem since #tesseract itself offers just a command line interface, I guess you will need some kind of desktop or mobile app.
In this case, it depends on what operating system you use.

[antemortem@mastodon.social]

@nils_ramsperger I'm using Linux and just read the man page of it. I'll try with command line, then if it fails I'll try another way

[nils_ramsperger@mastodon.social]

@antemortem trying the CLI is a good start. On Linux there are plenty of options. If you are on a Debian based distro, you could try OCRFeeder via apt. If you are on a Fedora based distro, Rescribe via Flathub might be worth a try.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@antemortem I have used a frontend to tesseract whose name I can't remember, but I can try looking it up again when I'm in front of the computer