{"id":9214,"date":"2019-07-30T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:32:58","slug":"gimagereader-3-3-1-released-install-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-3-3-1-released-install-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"gImageReader 3.3.1 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>gImageReader 3.3.1, open source GTK\/Qt front-end of tesseract-ocr, was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/manisandro\/gImageReader\/releases\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gImageReader<\/a> 3.3.1 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow specifying a DPI to assume for image sources when exporting to PDF<\/li>\n<li>Allow to choose whether to sanitize hyphens when exporting to PDF<\/li>\n<li>Attempt to map 639-2 language codes to ISO 639-1 to set spelling language<\/li>\n<li>Allow specifying character whitelist \/ blacklist for recognition<\/li>\n<li>Various other improvements, bug-fixes, and translation updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331-450x251.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader331.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install gImageReader 3.3.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~sandromani\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gimagereader\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> has made the new release packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sandromani\/gimagereader<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-ppa-600x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"116\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-ppa-600x116.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-ppa-450x87.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gimagereader-ppa.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> You may remove old gImageReader package if installed from Ubuntu Software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove gimagereader<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally install the latest packages via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update; sudo apt install gimagereader-gtk<\/pre>\n<p>For qt version, replace <code>gimagereader-gtk<\/code> with <code>gimagereader-qt<\/code> in last command.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apt-installgimagereader-600x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"115\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apt-installgimagereader-600x115.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apt-installgimagereader-450x86.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apt-installgimagereader.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall gImageReader:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the software, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove gimagereader-qt gimagereader-gtk<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA repository by going to <i>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/i> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-gimagereaderppa-450x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-gimagereaderppa-450x243.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-gimagereaderppa-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-gimagereaderppa-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/remove-gimagereaderppa.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gImageReader 3.3.1, open source GTK\/Qt front-end of tesseract-ocr, was released a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and derivatives. gImageReader 3.3.1 release highlights: Allow specifying a DPI to assume for image sources when exporting to PDF Allow to choose whether to sanitize hyphens when exporting to PDF Attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1771,1772],"class_list":["post-9214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-gimagereader","tag-tesseract-ocr-gui"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}