What is Cenon?
Cenon is an open source raster graphics editor, ray tracer, and document processor for Windows, Linux, and other platforms. It is designed to handle page scanning, optical character recognition, and document conversion to various formats.
Some key features of Cenon include:
- Importing images in various raster and vector formats like PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, etc.
- Converting documents to PDF, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and more
- OCR functionality to extract text from scanned documents
- Basic image processing and editing tools
- Batch processing and conversion for multiple files
- Command line interface for automation
Cenon is implemented in C++ and uses third-party libraries like Qt, libcairo, Tesseract OCR Engine and others. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD systems. The focus is on document processing rather than artistic drawing or image manipulation.
In summary, Cenon is ideal for anyone needing to convert paper documents into digital formats for archival and sharing. Its UI may not be the most polished, but it gets the job done reliably.