Could one of our openSUSE 3rd party packagers package gimagereader and gimagereader-qt5 (?) for openSUSE-15.2 ?
Malcolm Lewis has packaged this many times in the past , and I feel a bit guilty asking him to package it again.
I see there has been other packagers package this as well, but none yet for openSUSE LEAP-15.2 ( https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=✓&baseproject=ALL&q=gimagereader ) which given the timing is NO surprise - LEAP-15.2 was only ‘just’ released yesterday ergo one needs time to install … check and tune one’s system , etc … prior to any packaging.
Packaging of this application for LEAP-15.2 sometime in the next 4 to 8 weeks would be very much appreciated (I’ll keep watching that noted link of gimagereader packaging).
I know the request is very soon (after LEAP-15.2 release) but I just wanted to ensure this excellent package is not forgotten.
In the past I have blogged on this gimagereader packaging for openSUSE where as a “3rd party” packaged app since openSUSE-11.4 up to 15.1 it has been packaged with many thanks to Malcolm Lewis (for his packaging).
I have used this application extensively for conducting OCR on French and German documents (and also some other languages). After conducting the OCR I will then typically use a different translation app (often web based google or deepl web translation) to translate to English language.
Many thanks Malcolm. I just finished installing and testing on my LEAP-15.2 test setup and it works well (I tested with a German language letter, which I conducted a scan to JPEG followed by an OCR).
Initially when I launched the app, I had an error on a failure to load a dictionary. So I installed “myspell-de” and when I launched gimagereader again, I did not get the error.
These are not packaging errors, rather its me not selecting the appropriate dictionary for the language in which I wish to scan.
I get a LOT of use for this application, as I spent 2 decades in Germany, and often find for government documents that I receive in the postal mail, its very useful to scan them (and then translate via a translator) just to confirm my understand as to the letter’s contents is correct.