Software · Photo & graphics

gImageReader

A graphical (gtk) frontend to tesseract-ocr.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account
Old edition (2011)

Old edition: the latest known version (3.4.3) dates from 11 November 2011. It is no longer recommended as current software; the package date does not mean the software is still maintained.

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: GPL-3.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Winget
Publisher: Sandro Mani
Latest version: 3.4.3 (11 November 2011)
Package republished on: 10 June 2026
Source code: github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

Overview

gImageReader is an OCR program, available on Windows and Linux.

Old edition: the latest known version (3.4.3) dates from 2011; it is no longer presented as current software.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“A graphical (gtk) frontend to tesseract-ocr” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“gImageReader is a simple optical character recognition (OCR) application which acts as a frontend to the tesseract OCR engine.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

gImageReader is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

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

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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