[Okular-devel] OCR Tool for Okular

[Anıl Özbek]

2013/4/3 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> Why should this be a part of Okular and not a separate binary? I can imagine
> millions of other places i'd like to have OCR on. What's the benefit of it
> being Okular-only?

I need small-scale OCR only at three type software:

* Web Browser (Chrome)
* Image Viewer (Gwenview)
* Document Viewer (Okular)

And document viewer comes first for me. Actually there isn't much
benefits of OCR tool at Okular. I can count only one or two:

* It's easier to run (more than once) a builtin tool instead of run a
third party app.
* It works more integrated with Okular (selected text shown with
Okular's notification system) and it can be used very similarly to
other tools in Okular (just select something and selected thing is in
your clipboard like Copy to Clipboard tool does).
* Not everyone can find such a app if it released standalone. Because
it's not a very generic type of software. But if it comes with an
widely used and related application, more people can use it.

Regards,
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Anıl Özbek