gImageReader
by Sandro Mani
A graphical (gtk) frontend to tesseract-ocr
Dangerous permissions
Flathub reviewed
GPL-3.0+
v3.4.3
About
gImageReader is a simple optical character recognition (OCR) application which acts as a frontend to the tesseract OCR engine. Features include:
- Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots
- Process multiple images and documents in one go
- Define, manually or automatically, the recognition area
- Recognize and export as plain text or as hOCR documents
- Recognize text next to images
- Post-processing recognized text, including spell checking
- Generate PDF/ODT documents from hOCR documents
Permissions
5 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - full access to your home folder
--filesystem=home - owns desktop name org.gnome.gimagereader.*: can impersonate a desktop component
--own-name=org.gnome.gimagereader.* - talks to system service org.freedesktop.Avahi
--system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.Avahi - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - access to xdg-run/gvfsd
--filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd - talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
--talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.* - accessibility
--talk-name=org.a11y.Bus
Who publishes this
On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.
- on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
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