| Summary: | Add OCR to PDF | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | sandu7ip |
| Component: | New backend wishes | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aacid, dkxls23, lopezibanez, nate, silopolis, yurchor |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | example pdf | ||
Hi, The file attached for sure can be easily annotated with the current version of Okular. Just press F6 and go. As it comes to the search capabilities, can you try to add OCR layer to your PDF using gscan2pdf first? Thanks in advance for your answer. (In reply to Yuri Chornoivan from comment #1) > The file attached for sure can be easily annotated with the current version > of Okular. Just press F6 and go. Perhaps you can add a note, or draw something, but you can't underline or highlight a line. > As it comes to the search capabilities, can you try to add OCR layer to your > PDF using gscan2pdf first? I have actually used `ocrmypdf`. I would prefer it to be incorporated in Okular. So does Adobe Acrobat, it allows one to make a PDF searchable if it isn't. A useful thread in our mailing list: https://okular-devel.kde.narkive.com/5GHpBFqS/ocr-tool-for-okular That'd be awesome ! Apart from search and performing OCR of a whole document, another user case is using the Area Selection to select (parts of) an image and being able to copy the OCRed text within the image. Currently the only two options are "Copy to Clipboard" (as an image) and "Save to file..." (as an image). |
Created attachment 125743 [details] example pdf This is not a bug report but a feature request: - make PDF searchable and annotable from Okular. Many PDFs are scanned versions of old manuscripts. For instance, I cannot annotate the attached PDF.