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gImageReader Changelog

What's new in gImageReader 3.4.2

Feb 5, 2024
  • Bugfixes:
  • [Qt] Fix crash in FileTreeModel::findFile with temporary file
  • [Gtk] Correctly notify hOCR tree updates when merging items
  • [Win32] Fix dictionary installation directory
  • Quote x_font property in hOCR documents
  • Assorted Wayland fixes
  • Enhancements:
  • Add support for PoDoFo 0.10.x
  • Apply brightness/contrast/resolution/invert to all selected images
  • Updated translations

New in gImageReader Jul 19 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • Switch to svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2

New in gImageReader 3.4.0 (Feb 18, 2022)

  • Add support for tesseract 5.0
  • Add Qt6 support
  • Add thumbnail view for source documents
  • Add batch mode for recognizing multiple documents
  • Display sources in a tree
  • Allow opening output files directly from the source tree if they exist next to the source with the same basename
  • Allow moving image selection boxes
  • Text: Add multi-tab support
  • HOCR: Allow specifying whether new output is inserted/appended
  • HOCR: Allow opening multiple files at once, also from command line
  • HOCR: Add proof-reading widget (Qt interface only)
  • HOCR: New batch export dialog
  • HOCR: Add quick navigation for low confidence words

New in gImageReader 3.3.0 (Sep 27, 2018)

  • The main change compared to 3.2.99 is support for the script traineddatas which were introduced with tesseract 4.x.

New in gImageReader 3.2.3 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Fix broken hOCR export
  • Add option to prepend source filename / page to plain text output

New in gImageReader 3.2.2 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Attempt to use original source image for PDF output
  • Allow collapsing/expanding branches of hOCR tree via context menu
  • Recognize guillemets as quote characters
  • Fix crash when adding zero-page sources
  • Fix possible crash when rapidly switching documents
  • [Gtk] Fix output pane orientation not properly restored
  • [Gtk] Don't crash when rendering of image fails
  • [Gtk] Fix icons not appearing with recent Gtk versions
  • [Qt] Don't display empty image if rendering of downscaled image fails

New in gImageReader 3.2.1 (Mar 14, 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

New in gImageReader 3.1.2 (Jul 2, 2015)

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

New in gImageReader 3.1 (May 20, 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

New in gImageReader 3.0 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • 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

New in gImageReader 2.92 (Mar 20, 2014)

  • Add replacement-list feature, allowing the user to specify a list of replacements to perform on the recognized text
  • Fix saving output resulting in empty files
  • Fix crashes when rendering PDF files
  • Keep line-breaks if preeded by line-break
  • Fix localization not working on Windows

New in gImageReader 2.91 (Feb 21, 2014)

  • Improve page-layout autodetection by merging overlapping regions
  • Use native file-chooser dialogs on Gnome/KDE/Windows
  • Allow performing multipage-recognition with page-layout autodetection
  • Fix broken search/replace which caused the application to crash
  • Add Win64 packages
  • Fix some other bugs