gimagereader-3.2.1

gImageReader 3.2.1 (Feb 10 2017):

• Add possibility to rotate individual pages of multipage documents
• Ensure the tessdata manager downloads compatible tesseract languge definitions
• Add CCITT Group4 compression option for monochrome PDF export
• Allow choosing between diffuse and threshold dithering for monochrome PDF export
• Preview JPEG compression quality in PDF output preview
• Make brightness/contrast/resolution changes affect all selected sources
• [Qt] Support multipage images through QImageReader (Qt5.9+ will support multipage TIFFs)
• [Gtk] Fix hang when saving selection image
• [Qt] Fix possible deadlock when rapidly switching sources
• Updated translations

Update Feb 13 2017
Added experimental windows builds using tesseract-4.0.0 alpha.

gimagereader-3.2.0

gImageReader 3.2.0 (Nov 23 2016):

This is the first stable release of the 3.2.x series. It includes many bug fixes since 3.1.99, most of which were tracked down and patched by Daniel Plakhotich.

Starting from 3.2.0 I'll be maintaining a FAQ page.

Changelog:

• Add PageUp / PageDown keyboard accelerators for browsing multipage documents
• See 3.1.9x changelogs for all other feature changes since previous stable
• Many bug fixes since 3.1.99 - special thanks to Daniel Plakhotich

gimagereader-3.1.99

gImageReader 3.1.99 (Oct 13 2016):

This is the release candidate for gImageReader 3.2. The main highlight is a greatly enhanced hOCR editor and PDF export functionality.

Please report any issues you may find to ensure a polished 3.2.0 final release. If the translation for your language is missing or incomplete, this would be a good moment to submit an updated translation according to the instructions in the Readme.

Many thanks to all the users who provided valuable feedback and suggestions.

Changelog

• General improvements:
  • Catch critical tesseract errors which otherwise result in the application crashing
  • Improve spelling dictionary auto-installation logic
  • Allow choosing whether to store language files (language definitions, spelling dictionaries) in system-wide or user-local directories
• Plain text mode improvements:
  • Allow recognizing user-defined regions on multiple pages
  • Also treat \u2014 character as a hyphen
  • Make preserve paragraphs option correctly deal with trailing whitespace
• hOCR editor improvements:
  • Add "Add to dictionary" and "Ignore word" actions to spell-checking menu in hOCR editor
  • Exclude non-word characters from spell-checking
  • Allow merging adjacent word items
  • Allow adjusting bounding boxes of document elements by resizing the selection in the canvas
  • Allow removing arbitrary items from the document tree
  • Allow defining custom graphic regions from context-menu of the respective page item
• PDF export improvements:
  • Add previewing capability
  • Take into account baseline information to better position the words in the generated PDF
  • Add options to choose color format and compression of images written to PDF, allowing to greatly reduce the size of PDF
  • Correctly handle paper size and DPI
  • Improve logic for uniformizing word and line spacing
  • Make sure correct hypen character is used, allowing PDF applications to correctly find hyphenated words
• New and updated translations
• Various bug fixes
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

gimagereader-3.1.91

gImageReader 3.1.91 (May 03 2016):

• gImageReader 3.2 beta 2
• Fix crash when editing items in the hOCR editor
• Fix build with Ubuntu 14.04
• Updated czech translation
• Fix some string typos
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

This is a beta release. Please report any issues you may find.

For the translation status, see https://translations.launchpad.net/gimagereader

Note: On recent Windows versions, if you want to use the Tessdata Manager, you currently need to run the program as administrator (via right-click on the application shortcut).

gimagereader-3.1.90

gImageReader 3.1.90 (Apr 28 2016):

• gImageReader 3.2 beta 1
• Add an initial hOCR editor implementation, with possibility to save as hOCR HTML, PDF with invisible text overlay, or a PDF reconstructed from the extracted text and graphics
• Allow selecting and working on multiple sources at once
• Add a tessdata manager, to conveniently manage tesseract language definitions directly from the application
• Show a progress bar when recognizing, add a cancel button
• Modernized Gtk UI
• Expose script and orientation detection support
• Possiblity to pan via middle button drag
• Remove the need to specify the culture code in custom language definitions, and use a built-in language-culture mapping instead to search for spelling dictionaries
• Various bug fixes
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

This is a beta release. Please report any issues you may find.

For the translation status, see https://translations.launchpad.net/gimagereader

gimagereader-3.1.2

gImageReader 3.1.2 (Jun 30 2015):

• Fix incorrect behavior of "Append to current text" with multiple recognition areas

Update Feb 19 2016
Windows installers built against tesseract 3.04.00 are available for testing. People encountering crashes when using traineddata files generated for tesseract 3.04.00 should try these.

Update Feb 27 2016
Tesseract 3.04.00 Windows Installers rebuilt to include SSL libraries (fixes dictionary autoinstall failures). Links to tessdata files in manual have also been updated.

gimagereader-3.1.1

gImageReader 3.1.1 (Jun 11 2015):

• Fix titlebar now shown when window maximized in Gnome 3
• New translations: Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan)
• Updated translations: Russian, Portoguese

gimagereader-3.1

gImageReader 3.1 (May 1 2015):

• Add option to draw whitespace
• Allow searching and replacing only in selected portion of output text
• Add "preserve paragraphs" postprocessing option
• Allow to open files via drag and drop
• Improve rendering of certain PDF files with the Qt interface
• Fix scanning broken with certain scanners under Windows
• Support automatic spelling dictionary installation under Windows
• Allow saving scans in other formats than png
• Handful of bugs fixed
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

gimagereader-3.0.1

gImageReader 3.0.1 (Jan 4 2015):

• Fix a bug in the Qt interface when loading substitutions list from file
• Improve behaviour of strip line breaks functionality with multiple line breaks
• Small UI improvements
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

Windows users:
gImageReader 3.0.1 is compiled against a patched Qt5 version which should fix occasional crashes when cutting/pasting text in the output pane.

gimagereader-3.0

gImageReader 3.0 (Dec 12 2014):

• gImageReader 3.0 stable
• New Qt4/5 interface, as alternative to the Gtk interface
• Fixed scanning on Windows
• Memorize image settings (brightness, contrast, etc) when switching images
• Search forward and backward, replace all, case sensitive search
• Many bug fixes
• Translation updates
• Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master

Linux packages:

• Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~sandromani/+archive/gimagereader
• Fedora: The package is in the official repos
• OpenSuse: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:sandromani
• Archlinux: The package is in AUR

Attention Windows Users
Some anti-virus scanners might report that the setup exe contains a troyan. Such reports are most likely a false positives, see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives. (NSIS is the installation system used to build the Windows installer.) Unfortunately there is little I can do on my side to fix this.

Update for Windows Users
The previously uploaded version, which used the Qt4 libraries, appeared to crash on Windows 64bit systems, apparently due to a bug in Qt4. I've now switched to using Qt5 on Windows, which should hopefully fix the issues.