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GImageReader vs OCRmyPDF

A side-by-side look at GImageReader and OCRmyPDF. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GImageReader

GImageReader

Office & Productivity

GImageReader is an open source optical character recognition software for Linux. It allows scanning and converting printed documents, images, screenshots, and PDF files to searchable and editable text documents.

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OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF

Office & Productivity

OCRmyPDF is an open source command-line program and Python library that applies optical character recognition (OCR) to PDF documents. It takes an existing PDF as input and generates a new searchable PDF as output with an invisible text layer over images.

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