# Optical Character Recognition

# Applications

## Linux 

### gimagereader

`sudo pacman -s gimagereader-qt` (there are also gtk versions swap -qt for -gtk)

You will be prompted to select a dataset based on your language. The table that provides a key can be found on this page. If you are looking for English search for the -eng option. 

https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files.html


## Further Reading

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ocr-tools