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Old 03-16-2020, 05:42 PM   #1344
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Originally Posted by nixsee View Post
Another idea: OCR, which goes hand-in-hand with search indexing. There's obviously other ways to do this with 3rd party applications, but a built-in, streamlined process (and without need for the command-line) would be great. Again, Zotero has a plugin for this, that is built off of the free Tesseract engine.

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotero-ocr
See previous response - re searching,

Kovid has indicated in the past that he intends adding content search to calibre, I think he mentioned using the Lucene engine, it may search OCR search image PDFs.

This also looks interesting Dropbox's AutoOCR can index text from PDFs and images

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