{"id":1664,"date":"2015-02-20T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T12:55:51","slug":"gimagereader-ocr-tool-for-capturing-text-from-scanned-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"gImageReader, OCR tool for capturing text from scanned images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/gimagereader\/\">gImageReader<\/a> can recognize text from scanned documents or books. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">OCR<\/a> (Optical character recognition) used is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/tesseract-ocr\/\">tesseract-ocr<\/a> engine. It is free and open source. There also exist a <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/node\/33010\">portable<\/a> version for <a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=214\">PortableApps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">Wikipedia<\/a>: Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Example 1: A3-scan in pdf format<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimagereader-01.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimagereader-01-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"gImageReader-01\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimagereader-01-1-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The extracted text is<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>2.12 RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVES<\/p>\n<p>The information security manager must understand recovery<br \/>\ntime objectives (RTOs) and how they apply to the organization\u2019s<br \/>\ninformation resources as part of the overall evaluation of risk.<br \/>\nThe organization\u2019s business needs will dictate the RTO, which is<br \/>\nusually de?ned as the amount of time to recover an acceptable<br \/>\nlevel of nonnal operations. The information resource\u2019s ?mctional<br \/>\ncriticality, recovery priorities, and interdependencies offset by<br \/>\ncosts are variables that will determine the RTO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Example 2: A4-scan in png format<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimagereader-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"gImageReader-02\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimagereader-02-small.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gImageReader can recognize text from scanned documents or books. The OCR (Optical character recognition) used is based on tesseract-ocr engine. It is free and open source. There also exist a portable version for PortableApps. Wikipedia: Optical character recognition (OCR) is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=1664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}