gImageReader 3.1.99 (Oct 13 2016):
This is the release candidate for gImageReader 3.2. The main highlight is a greatly enhanced hOCR editor and PDF export functionality.
Please report any issues you may find to ensure a polished 3.2.0 final release. If the translation for your language is missing or incomplete, this would be a good moment to submit an updated translation according to the instructions in the Readme.
Many thanks to all the users who provided valuable feedback and suggestions.
Changelog
- General improvements:
- Catch critical tesseract errors which otherwise result in the application crashing
- Improve spelling dictionary auto-installation logic
- Allow choosing whether to store language files (language definitions, spelling dictionaries) in system-wide or user-local directories
- Plain text mode improvements:
- Allow recognizing user-defined regions on multiple pages
- Also treat \u2014 character as a hyphen
- Make preserve paragraphs option correctly deal with trailing whitespace
- hOCR editor improvements:
- Add "Add to dictionary" and "Ignore word" actions to spell-checking menu in hOCR editor
- Exclude non-word characters from spell-checking
- Allow merging adjacent word items
- Allow adjusting bounding boxes of document elements by resizing the selection in the canvas
- Allow removing arbitrary items from the document tree
- Allow defining custom graphic regions from context-menu of the respective page item
- PDF export improvements:
- Add previewing capability
- Take into account baseline information to better position the words in the generated PDF
- Add options to choose color format and compression of images written to PDF, allowing to greatly reduce the size of PDF
- Correctly handle paper size and DPI
- Improve logic for uniformizing word and line spacing
- Make sure correct hypen character is used, allowing PDF applications to correctly find hyphenated words
- New and updated translations
- Various bug fixes
- Full details in commit log: https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/commits/master