Convert scanned documents with a single right click in KDE Dolphin to plain text or a (searchable) "sandwich" PDF.
Creates SCAN-0001.png.txt (or SCAN-0001.png.pdf) from SCAN-0001.png
Read-It utilizes (and checks) tesseract(1). Please use your package management system to install.
The required package is 'tesseract-ocr' in most common distributions.
If tesseract is not installed, Read-It will either not show up at all or show an error message.
Read-It is restricted to reading text from images only. Currently no plans to read from PDF as well.
Read-It uses a very rough method to determine the default language to use with tesseract:
_tesseract_lang_code="$(tesseract --list-langs | grep ${LANG:0:2})"
(This works fine for a variety of languages such as englisch, italian, german, but not for spanish.)
It also roughly overwrites existing extraction files of the same name.
Create one PDF with multiple pages from a list of image files.
- 2023-10-03: 0.2.1: removed default TryExec=, replaced by own check, being more verbose on not-install error and success on creation
- 2023-10-03: 0.3.0: added option to create a seachable "sandwich" PDF