Debian Accessibility Project
Summary
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Debian Accessibility Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

Description

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Debian Accessibility Optical Character Recognition (OCR) packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

ebook-speaker
eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice
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trixie6.2.0-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm-proposed-updates6.2.0-4+deb12u1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm6.2.0-4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye5.5.2-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
stretch4.1.0-2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package ebook-speaker:
accessibilityspeech
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
scopeutility
soundplayer
works-withfile
works-with-formatepub
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This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out electronic text using speech synthesis. It has a simple user interface appropriate for Braille terminals.

Currently the following formats are supported (some formats need additional packages as suggested by this package):

 AportisDoc
 ASCII mail text
 ASCII text
 Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
 Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word)
 DAISY3 DTBook
 EPUB ebook data
 GIF image data
 GutenPalm zTXT
 GNU gettext message catalogue
 HTML document
 ISO-8859 text
 JPEG image data
 Microsoft Reader eBook Data
 Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Microsoft Word 2007+
 Mobipocket E-book
 MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Netpbm PPM data
 OpenDocument Text
 PDF document
 PeanutPress PalmOS
 PNG image data
 POSIX shell script text
 PostScript document
 Rich Text Format
 troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages)
 UTF-8 Unicode mail text
 UTF-8 Unicode text
 WordPerfect
 XML document text
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gocr
Command line OCR
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jessie0.49-2amd64,armel,armhf,i386
sid0.52-6.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie0.52-6amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm0.52-6amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye0.52-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster0.52-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
stretch0.49-2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
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accessibilityocr
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
scopeapplication
useconverting
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This is a multi-platform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

It can read pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, some pcx and tga image files.

Currently the program should be able to handle well scans that have their text in one column and do not have tables. Font sizes of 20 to 60 pixels are supported.

If you want to write your own OCR, libgocr is provided in a separate package. Documentation and graphical wrapper are provided in separated packages, too.

hocr-gtk
GTK+ frontend for Hebrew OCR
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buster0.10.18-3all
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accessibilityocr
culturehebrew
interfacex11
roleprogram
scopeapplication
uitoolkitgtk
useconverting
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Hocr-gtk is a GTK+ based graphical interface to the libhocr library. It can open multiple image formats and uses aspell for internal spell checking.

lios
Linux intelligent OCR solution
Maintainer: Samuel Thibault
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experimental2.7.2+git20221124-0.1all
trixie2.7.2-7all
bookworm2.7.2-6all
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Lios provides a graphical interface on top of the Cuneiform and Tesseract OCR backends to make OCR processing easier for impaired users, with full autorotation, brightness optimization, rectangle selection, audio feedback, etc.

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tesseract-ocr
Tesseract command line OCR tool
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stretch3.04.01-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
stretch-backports4.0.0-2~bpo9+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster4.0.0-2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye4.1.1-2.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
jessie3.03.03-1amd64,armel,armhf,i386
trixie5.3.4-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el,s390x
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Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the command line tool.

Debian packages in contrib or non-free

cuneiform
multi-language OCR system
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buster1.1.0+dfsg-7 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel
jessie1.1.0+dfsg-5 (non-free)amd64,i386
sid1.1.0+dfsg-10 (non-free)amd64,arm64,i386,mips64el,ppc64el
experimental1.1.0+dfsg-9.1~exp1 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el
sid1.1.0+dfsg-9 (non-free)armel,armhf
trixie1.1.0+dfsg-9 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,ppc64el
bookworm1.1.0+dfsg-9 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el
bullseye1.1.0+dfsg-8 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el
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accessibilityocr
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scopeutility
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Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition.

The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

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