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[Bug 483391] Re: Extract text using optical character recognition (OCR)

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From: Michael Nagel <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:29:06 -0000
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I think this could be split into two milestones:

milestone 1: some-ocr-at-all:
Get a minimum viable product: Add a button to the interface that reads "Recognize Text", and when it is clicked, the current page is saved (in an appropriate format) to /tmp/$something and the most mature OCR tool is invoked with that file as input.

milestone 2: integrated-ocr:
Make the whole thing more integrated, so that simple scan does the scanning with settings optimized for OCR, automatically applies relevant image preprocessing, allows to select the area to work on from within the application and probably allow exporting to PDF with searchable text and neat stuff like that.

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Title:
  Extract text using optical character recognition (OCR)

Status in Simple Scan:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Add a "Text" profile that automatically runs the scan through OCR and
  saves in .txt format

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