OCR in Libre Office

[athegn]

Is there a way to use OCR in LIbre Office? I can scan a document and save as a jpeg or pdf. I want that OCR’d

[Grantler]

Workaround

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@athegn You have to use a 3rd party product. My recommendation is www.pdf24.org - either you install the apps and readout locally or you upload to pdf24.org-OCR and after some time you will have a more or less satisfactory result.

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Or send a feature request to Bugzilla.link text

[anon73440385]

Hello,

the answer is: No

[athegn]

Thank you.

Used Simple OCR for this one document. May need better as now expected t to be asked to do a lot more.

[ajlittoz]

This is not an answer but a follow-on comment. Please move it where it belongs (add a comment) and delete it.

[RaspputinII]

FreeOCR works fine
http://www.paperfile.net/download.html

Also, If you use Google Drive you can upload a jepeg or or pdf and then right click it and choose “open as a google document”.

Dive will use OCR to convert it to an editable Google Doc.

Both are free.

[Wanderer]

At this time, there is no OCR intregrated in LibreOffice. So you need to install a OCR-Software first.

It may then be possible to start this via macro. See this older thread (the external OCR is tesseract):

OCR to take information from a scanned document, and automatically write it into cells with a macro

For the first Video the Routine ist visible at 0:24 Seconds. It shows an external call to tesseract.exe Therefore a similiar appoach via shell is possible in LibreOffice via shell(). The Seconds Video actually has the Code also in the description of the Video. It uses emgu.cv a wrapper for openCV wich itself calls tesseract. I guess it is possible to use a Python-Lib to access openCV directly, instead of using an additional wrapper to .NET

It would be useful to know your Operating System (Windows, Linux-distro, Mac) as some solutions may not work on Snapstore-Installations etc.