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I have a paper document. There are more pages containing a table with 3 columns (current number, name and a grade).

I scanned it and got 16 jpeg documents. Each jpeg is a scanned page.

Now, I need an OCR to convert each jpeg into text, in order to insert this table in an excel document.

I use LibreOffice and Ubuntu 12.04.

Mihaita
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The Scanning and OCR page on Ubuntu Apps show us several alternatives, of which I suggest you to use XSane Image Scanning Program or Simple Scan (usually pre-installed in 12.04 and maybe earlier versions too) and/or gscan2pdf, to get your documents scanned.

My favorite is gscan2pdf, which allow you to follow the Scan/OCR process in the same GUI with no problem.

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Please notice that I am attempting to run a OCR to a screenshot.

You simply Scan or Import the documents/images and go to the Tools Menu, choose the OCR Option and you'll be asked for a OCR Engine, simply choose the one that gives the best results for you and click "Start OCR".

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You'll find the OCR Output in the tab with the same title as shown in the next screenshot.

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Please note that even with good quality images the OCR may fail interpreting certain characters, which may result in misspelled words or simply Egyptian hieroglyphics. The process to OCR a large set of documents may delay for a while.

Here is a link to a comprehensive video which explains the process to Scan and OCR in GScan2PDF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjjogfWfWsQ

Good luck!

Geppettvs D'Constanzo
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Bit late in answering this question.

But for others who come to this page searching for an OCR solution for LibreOffice, I recently develeped LibreOCR, an OCR plugin for LibreOffice.

It is part of Indic-OCR project.

The extension can now be found from LibreOffice Extensions Website

RKVS Raman
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