ZMzmix·Sep 10, 2021
Another (multi-platform) one, that packages Tesseract very nicely, is gImageReader[1]
[1]: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
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gImageReader
A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
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| Jul 19 | 2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 26 | 2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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What Hacker News says
2 sources> [ScanTailor Advanced] seemingly unmaintained for over a year
ScanTailor official repo also archived on November 29, 2020.[0]
> This project is no longer maintained, and has not been maintained for a while.
As alternative to ScanTailor (and its forks) there is gImageReader (Tesseract Qt/GTK GUI), but also seems like unmaintained since 2019.[1,2]
[0] https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor/commit/e881b30b6ed1...
[1] https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader
[2] https://github.com/probonopd/gImageReader/releases/tag/conti...
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