Brainstorm idea - OCR integration

[David Hurka]

Hi,

I had this idea many times already, because some PDFs have bitmap-only 
passages or are completely bitmap-only. Selection and the search function 
don't work there.

The search function in Okular should be able to compensate typos, because OCR 
will probably introduce some typos.

The OCR engine would only need to return the text and it's position in the 
bitmap, right?

Regards, David

On 2018-10-02 11:00 okular-devel-request at kde.org wrote:

> Well, the idea is this: integrate a OCR service in Okular, based in a KDE
> motor engine, or maybe in a external service, like Teserreact or Abbyy
> finereader.
> 
> Probably this idea extend in other services, like Calligra Office suite or
> Gwenview
> 
> And well... thi is all idea xD I hope like you 
> 
> 
> Greetings of all KDE squad. You are the best!!