OCR – Optical Character Recognition OCR is a technology that allows you to convert scanned images of text into plain text. This enables you to save space, edit the text and search/index it. Available OCR tools The Ubuntu Universe repositories contain the following OCR tools: fuzzyocr – spamassassin plugin to check image attachments gocr – a command line OCR libhocr0 – Hebrew OCR ocrad – OCR program ocrfeeder – document layout analysis and optical character recognition system ocropus – document analys

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