Any equivalent for office lens in Linux?

bscho · 02-11-2017, 01:28 PM

Any way of imitating office lens in Linux? Thanks for your help.

ondoho · 02-11-2017, 03:03 PM

we need more information.
not everybody is familiar with "office lense", or your distro or office suite installed, or your needs (WHY do you need office lense?).

bscho · 02-11-2017, 04:19 PM

I need to scan in a document then copy the text. This is what the Office Lens does for windoze, iphone etc.

ondoho · 02-11-2017, 05:00 PM

optical character recognition (OCR) software?

bscho · 02-11-2017, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

optical character recognition (OCR) software?

What program is that?

TB0ne · 02-11-2017, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by bscho

What program is that?

Did you click that link and read the results???

ondoho · 02-12-2017, 05:56 AM

you could also bother to answer my questions. i wasn't being facetious.

Turbocapitalist · 02-12-2017, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by bscho

What program is that?

It's right there in the text of the link given.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It is a general method to try to convert scanned documents (bitmaps) into actual text. It is a general category and there are many programs within that category. See these for example: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR

bscho · 02-12-2017, 07:35 AM

I have tried gimageReader and YAGF both could not do the newspaper as they couldn't read the smaller print.
Any other that might do better.

orcad doesn't seem to exist any more I installed it and nothing happened.

Meanwhile, thanks all for your great help.

Jim.Henderson44 · 03-02-2020, 12:05 AM

What I use Office Lens for on my Android phone is for photographing documents and posters at historic sites. I don't have to get the image squared up perfectly in the phone's screen. Then the app draws a line around the part of the image that it thinks I want. I can drag the edges of the selection and tap Done, and it produces a rectangular image. I find it pretty good at doing that.

I'm looking for a Linux program that will let me do the same kind of thing.

I don't use it for OCR.

Thanks for thinking about this,
Jim

Jim.Henderson44 · 03-02-2020, 01:28 AM

Answering my own question:

The Perspective tool in the GIMP does it quite well.