Shutter

Add OCR functionality to Shutter

Bug #284547 reported by Mario Kemper (Romario)
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Shutter
Confirmed
Wishlist
Mario Kemper (Romario)
Shutter misc

Bug Description

Thanks <email address hidden> for this idea:

"Screenshot Reader is an easy-to-use utility that lets you quickly
capture screen images and allows you to perform “instant” OCR from the
screen. It is ideal for pulling text, tables, or images from Web browser
pages, flash presentations, Windows Explorer file menus, or error
messages. Screenshot Reader is also an ideal “quick OCR” tool when you
want to pull small quotes or a few sentences of text from a PDF or image
file."
from: http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44760

GOCR?
Tesseract OCR? -> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
OCRrad -> http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
Clara -> http://directory.fsf.org/claraocr.html

Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)
Changed in gscrot:
assignee: nobody → mario-kemper
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) wrote :

New program on getdeb.net uses tesseract OCR, it seems to work ok.

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Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper) wrote :

Personally I am very interested in this feature.

Targeting this to milestone 0.85 but I can't promise anything because I am pretty unfamiliar with current ocr techniques / tools.

summary: - Add OCR functionality to GScrot
+ Add OCR functionality to Shutter
Changed in shutter:
milestone: none → 0.85
status: New → Confirmed
Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)
Changed in shutter:
milestone: 0.85 → 0.90
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ledom (sebastien-domeny) wrote :

Shutter is really fast and usefull, whit OCR it would be better!
Have a look to gttext: http://code.google.com/p/gttext/

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richud (richud.com) wrote :

ahha other people want to be able to OCR with shutter too, this feature would be great!

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