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simon-knuth / scanner

An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform
https://simon-knuth.github.io/scanner/index
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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OCR support #129

Open Averbea opened 4 months ago

Averbea commented 4 months ago

Describe the solution you'd like I would love if this application had OCR support. This would simplify the workflow and allow the scanned Documents to be searched.

Describe alternatives you've considered I tried another Scan App from Microsoft Store which promised to support OCR but somehow it did not work. Apparently Adobe Acrobat Reader has a Scan & OCR Feature in the paid version too.

simon-knuth commented 3 months ago

Yes, OCR is high on the priority list but the required work probably wouldn't make sense with the current app architecture. In addition to making PDFs searchable, I'm keeping an eye on the new AI-powered OCR APIs coming to Windows. Don't expect an update on this any time soon due to some remaining blocking factors on the WinUI side, sorry.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 3 months ago

https://github.com/simon-knuth/scanner/issues/129#issuecomment-2151021262

@simon-knuth, are there any relevant WinUI issues worth correlating with this? I'm interested in how the GUI toolkit could be blocking this.

simon-knuth commented 3 months ago

#129 (comment)

@simon-knuth, are there any relevant WinUI issues worth correlating with this? I'm interested in how the GUI toolkit could be blocking this.

Nothing directly related to the PDF component, but I don't plan on touching that part of the app until Scanner migrates to WinUI3, which isn't possible right now. Off the top of my head, the biggest remaining blocker is the lack of Windows Ink support, which is hopefully arriving in the next 6 months.