OCR for image to text converter
reddit / selfhosted

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t1nk3rz · 2023-10-23 07:11

Hello,
I'm starting a new course and the materials are all in PDF viewable
only, for comody sake i use it a lot for online services to convert
image to text, even ChatGpt 4 does it, does somebody knows some king
of self hosted ocr converter? To convert screenshots into text?

Tnx

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sixtyfifth_snow · 2023-10-23 07:14

`tesseract-ocr`? You can download it via apt or something similar.

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DaHunni · 2023-10-23 07:34

paperless-ngx has built in ocr but I don't think it would fit your
needs

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The_Laki · 2023-10-23 07:45

Windows 11 has this built in if you take a screenshot

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BadGroundbreaking243 · 2023-10-23 09:31

You could spin up paperless-ngx. Or use pdf24 creator.
Beware paperless consume will delete the file.

I used paperless-ngx before and it works pretty good.

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t1nk3rz · 2023-10-23 10:04

Didn't know that,i use flameshot for screenshots,i will take a look
thnx

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t1nk3rz · 2023-10-23 10:04

I will check it up

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t1nk3rz · 2023-10-23 10:06

I will check it up, i have Stirlingpdf and I see it also has ocr
support

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henry_tennenbaum · 2023-10-23 10:29

I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Do you want to apply OCR to
PDFs or to screenshots?

For PDFs there's the excellent
[ocrmypdf](https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF) which paperless-ngx
uses under the hood.

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lilolalu · 2023-10-23 10:41

Nextcloud AIO (all-in-one) comes with full text search installed,
which brings tesseract to nextcloud. so you can let tesseract-ocr run
over all documents and then they will be searchable with
Elasticsearch.

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Defiant-Ad-5513 · 2023-10-23 20:49

Stirling works realy good for me.

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KyroPaul · 2023-10-29 23:51

Yeah paperless will have the added benefit of organizing your
documents so they are useful.