HOWTO_apps-to-scan-cleanup-convert-and-OCR-print-texts-into-okay-digital-Unicode-e-texts.txt

* ScanTailor: cleanup-scanned images-via-cropping-transformations&etc. app for later OCR'ing via another app = on sourceforge.net/p/scantailor/
* I forget the name of that app: OCRoreader / OCRfeeder / OctoreaderOCR??? or something like that... it's an open-source OCR app with a GUI frontend and it has a Wikipedia article about/on it... i's called OCRfeeder Studio + tesseractocr, gocr, hocr/hebOCR (Hebrew OCR), OcrGui, gImageReader GTK/Qt front-end for tesseract-ocr, OCRKit, OCRopus; SubRip; Google Android - Google Translate photograph/scan&OCR, google-ime-tools, shapecatcher.com, ...
* OCR apps hosted on http://github.com & on http://gitlab.org
* pdf2htmlEX & img2pdf (both are on http://github.org or on http://gitlab.org) ; http://mister-muffin.de & PyPI (pip3) - http://python.org
* Google/IBM/HP? `tesseract-ocr` + langpacks
* `iconv` (it doesn't support Unicode-BOM last time I checked...) + `fluif`?
* http://tools.chitanka.info - for .FB2 ... + http://calibre.org (Calibre eBook Reader) + google for freeware/open-source MS-Windows apps to make JavaME ebooks from .txt files with pixel-fonts - for use as apps on old dumbphones/feature-phones (NOT smartphones/phablets/tablets/smartwatches - which usually run Google Android, Apple, Inc. iOS, or even JollaOS or TizenOS, or http://puri.sm OS, etc.)...
* http://pandoc.org (fileformats-convertor) --- e.g. conversion to .txt/.html (HTML5), and to ePub(v2/v3+?)
* http://commonmark.org & GitHub-flavored Markdown
* basic HTML5 skills...
* a good text-editor app: e.g. Notepad++ (64-bit?), Notepad2-mod, Notepad3, Notepadqq, medit, NeoVim, Emacsen, Spacemacs, gVim, GNU Emacs, GeanyIDE, `nano`, `ed`, `fled`(???), GitHub Atom, Adobe Brackets, Microsoft VSCode, etc.
* http://voidtools.com (Search Everything for MS Windows) - or FSearch under Linux
* Unicode character maps:
BabelMap, BabelMap online, gucharmap, KCharSelect; http://unicode.org/CHARTS/ & ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ & http://unicode.org/CLDR/ ; http://graphemi.ca
* save your files as .txt or .html (Unicode UTF-8-noBOM/BOM)
* if it's an OCR of a book with food-recipes, try using hRecipe from http://microformats.org
* when saving a file with MS Office Word or with LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, always use 'Embed all fonts and all glyphs' and when saving as a .pdf file, later use Adobe Acrobat Reader to embed/attach the original editable file... (similar to how LibreOffice does it with a special option, or how https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/editors/bg/cv/upload ( https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/editors/bg ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/bg/taxonomy/term/86 ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/bg/documents ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/bg/resources/downloads ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/bg/education-and-training-glossary ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass2spreadsheet/ ; https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/documents/curriculum-vitae/examples ) does it with their HTML5 online editor for CVs...)...
* ocroread OCR artificial-neural-network (see http://github.com/advanced-search / )
* PDF viewer: http://pdfreaders.org - e.g. SumatraPDF, FoxitReader (freeware), Adobe Acrobat DC PDF-reader (freeware, has file-attaching feature via Tools->Comment/Annotate), qpdfview/qpdfviewer, XpdfReader, muPDF, KDE Okular, GNOME3/MATE PDF-reader (Evince / Astril), etc.; PDF viewers for Google Android: ReadEra (best!), Librera Reader, FullReader, Moon+ Reader, Perfect Viewer v4.7.1.2, PDF Viewer & Book Reader v3.0.8.RC-GP(9000308), EBookDroid, (OpenXPS, DjVuLibre, VTD-XML, Unrar, FictionBook (fb2, fb2.zip), cbz,cbr (Comic Books)), FoxitPDF, iLovePDF, Pdf Converter; hentai manga porn viewers for Google Android: (web-browser + henai-manga viwer websies...), Hendroid, EhViewer, NClientV2, DoujinsApp.com

* Scribus (F(L)OSS alternative to commercial Adobe InDesign)
* Inkscape (F(L)OSS alternative to commercial Adobe Photoshop/Elements/etc.?)
* Krita, paint.net (v?.??), GIMPv2, SpeedyPainter, Chasys Draw IES, azPainter/azPainter2/etc., etc. - see the article in http://animeinn.net - issue 10 + see the file:

https://github.com/sahwar/Bulogos/blob/master/Best-free-digital-painting-image-editing-killer-apps.md

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