As already mentioned, the gocr must be installed. Scan a preview of your document in grayscale or color. You can only scan in binary mode if you have a pure white sheet of paper with black print. Next, highlight the text to be recognized in the preview window. Then, do your final scan in binary mode with .
Now click the second icon from the left,
,
in the icon panel,
OCR on Selection..., or select
this item in the Image menu. For your
first try, do not change the default settings shown in the emerging
OCR window. These are usually appropriate and meet
most needs. Now click . You will now see a window containing the
OCR results. The quality depends heavily on that of
the document itself.
The text can now be opened by clicking the button with the Kate editor. After the final scan, mark a selection in the image display to the right to load just a part of the text or image to the OCR. Next, in the icon panel, click the third button from the right or click in the menu on . Now proceed as described in the previous section.
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