How to install gImageReader in Ubuntu
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To install gImageReader in Ubuntu
gImageReader is a free tool for OCR scanning used in Linux systems. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It allows the users to scan various file formats including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIFF or PDF files. Users can also scan the files, which is directly imported from the scanner and recognize the characters. Installation of gImageReader in Ubuntu is explained in this article.
Features
- Fix appdata file
- Update release date
- Fix warning
- Fix incorrect translation
Installation of gImageReader
Before installing gImageReader, add the repositories with the following command.
root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:sandromani/gimagereader
A graphical GTK frontend to tesseract-ocr
More info: https://launchpad.net/~sandromani/+archive/ubuntu/gimagereader
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpr970qiv1/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpr970qiv1/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key B4591784 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpr970qiv1/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key B4591784: public key " Launchpad PPA for Sandro Mani" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
Then update the added repositories with " apt-get update" command.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sandromani/gimagereader/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:2 http://screenshots.getdeb.net wily-getdeb InRelease
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]
Ign:7 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04 InRelease
Hit:8 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04 Release
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sandromani/gimagereader/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [3,244 B]
Get:10 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04 Release.gpg [481 B]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sandromani/gimagereader/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [3,240 B]
Hit:12 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sandromani/gimagereader/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,496 B]
Fetched 216 kB in 5s (37.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now run the below command to install the gImageReader software.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gimagereader tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libkf5archive5 libqt5concurrent5 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-common
Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0v5 libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5 liblept5 libopenjp2-7 libtesseract3 tesseract-ocr-equ tesseract-ocr-osd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimagereader libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0v5 libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5 liblept5 libopenjp2-7 libtesseract3 tesseract-ocr
tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-equ tesseract-ocr-osd
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 59.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0v5 amd64 3.18.0-1 [76.5 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5 amd64 3.0.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1 [10.6 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libopenjp2-7 amd64 2.1.0-2.1 [104 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 liblept5 amd64 1.73-1 [872 kB]
Get:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libtesseract3 amd64 3.04.01-4 [1,106 kB]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gimagereader amd64 3.1.2+git368fa8f-2build1 [285 kB]
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 tesseract-ocr-eng all 3.04.00-1 [8,824 kB]
Get:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 tesseract-ocr-osd all 3.04.00-1 [2,988 kB]
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Setting up libtesseract3 (3.04.01-4) ...
Setting up gimagereader (3.1.2+git368fa8f-2build1) ...
Setting up tesseract-ocr-eng (3.04.00-1) ...
Setting up tesseract-ocr-osd (3.04.00-1) ...
Setting up tesseract-ocr-equ (3.04.00-1) ...
Setting up tesseract-ocr (3.04.01-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Now open the unity dash and type gimagereader in the seaarch bar. Then click on the icon.
The gimagreader software will display as shown below. Here you can work with various image format.
To remove gImagReader
Run the below command to uninstall the gImageReader software.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get remove gimagereader -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0v5 libgtkspellmm-3.0-0v5 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libkf5archive5 libqt5concurrent5 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
libwebkitgtk-3.0-common
Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gimagereader
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Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 1 removed doc-base file...
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