Add OCR to gwenview

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Some time ago screenshot tool spectacle got OCR: Add OCR functionality to Spectacle (!462) · Merge requests · Plasma / Spectacle · GitLab

I would like for gwenview to also have an OCR button

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Perhaps it would be a good idea to turn the OCR tool into a library within the framework.

Thus, other applications could make use of this functionality, such as Skanlite or Okular.

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Indeed.

I was also thinking it might be neat to have an application or service for OCR which can act as a target for the “Share..” functionality (in KDE terms the Purpose framework).

Then any program that has this already integrated, like in this case Gwenview, would have it available in some way by default and could consider direct integration without time pressure

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It’ll be neat if it worked like Preview on macOS does where it automatically detects and OCRs so you can select the text and copy without extra work.

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For what it’s worth, there’s actually an open merge request working on this: Feature: Add native text recognition (OCR) tool (!375) · Merge requests · Graphics / Gwenview · GitLab