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Isn't there any software which edits the files which has both images and text?
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Isn't there any software which edits the files which has both images and text?

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It's really explained me. I was having the doubt that what if the document has both images and text and it's cleared it now. I'll give a try of the software and let you know
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It's really explained me. I was having the doubt that what if the document has both images and text and it's cleared it now. I'll give a try of the software and let you know

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I'm glad that explained it. &nbsp;Best of luck.<br />
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I'm glad that explained it.  Best of luck.



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Could you recommend me any best gui tool from them. I know about gimp and I'll be using it for editing images but I didn't try editing scanned documents.
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Could you recommend me any best gui tool from them. I know about gimp and I'll be using it for editing images but I didn't try editing scanned documents.

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As far as OCR software, in the ubuntu community link I gave above, take a look at OCRFeeder. &nbsp;It runs in a gui. &nbsp;Although it doesn't have character recognition itself, it does have predefined settings to use Tesseract for character recognition.<br />
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Once you have the characters recognized the document can not be edited using any text editor. &nbsp;OpenOffice <a href="http://www.openoffice.org" rel="ugc">www.openoffice.org</a>&nbsp;can be used on ubuntu for this. &nbsp;<br />
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As far as OCR software, in the ubuntu community link I gave above, take a look at OCRFeeder.  It runs in a gui.  Although it doesn't have character recognition itself, it does have predefined settings to use Tesseract for character recognition.

Once you have the characters recognized the document can not be edited using any text editor.  OpenOffice www.openoffice.org [http://www.openoffice.org] can be used on ubuntu for this.  



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Any open source software for editing scanned documents for Ubuntu Linux?
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Any open source software for editing scanned documents for Ubuntu Linux?

Edit scanned document in linux

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