# manisandro/gImageReader

A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

Repository: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gimagereader
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: qt, ocr, pdf-document, c-plus-plus, tesseract-ocr, gtk, hocr-documents, hocr, scanner
Last push: 2026-01-15T10:07:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 62, release rhythm 9, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4588, "days_push": 230, "days_rel": 394, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1984, forks 219 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:02.584599+00:00)

## What it is
gImageReader is a graphical GTK/Qt front-end to the tesseract-ocr engine for recognizing text in images, PDFs, scans, and screenshots. It supports batch processing, manual or automatic recognition areas, plain text and hOCR output, spellchecking, and PDF generation from hOCR.

## Use cases
- extract text from scanned pdf documents
- ocr images from disk, scanner, clipboard, or screenshots
- convert scanned pages to searchable pdfs
- recognize text to hOCR documents
- batch ocr multiple images at once
- spellcheck and post-process recognized text

## When to choose
- you want a gui for tesseract instead of the command line
- you need to ocr pdfs or scanned documents on linux or windows
- you want hocr output and pdf generation from recognized text
- you need batch recognition of many images

## When to avoid
- you need a command-line or scriptable ocr pipeline
- you need ocr on mobile or in the browser
- you want handwriting recognition or non-tesseract engines

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, pdf, image-processing, gui
- domain: pdf, files, developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: tesseract-ocr, hocr, gtk, qt, scanner, pdf-generation, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- manisandro/gImageReader (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.584599+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:19.731908+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.584599+00:00, sha b85a59b435d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.