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- 2021-09-19
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AnkiOCR
AnkiWeb addon 450181164
Generates searchable OCR text from images in Anki notes, supporting batch processing, multiple languages, and easy removal or output to a separate field.
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Maintenance
abandoned
- Last update or commit was 1010 days before the snapshot (2023-12-26).
- The repository has 5 test files.
GitHub
- Repository
- cfculhane/ankiocr · more by cfculhane
- Stars
- ⭐ 19 · forks 5 · open issues 20
- Last commit
- 2023-12-26
- License
- MIT
- Languages
- C, HTML, Roff, C++, Python, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Shell, CMake, Makefile
- Tests
- 5
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | – | 2021-09-19 |
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README
AnkiOCR
Anki 2.1 addon to generate OCR text from images inside of Anki notes/cards. Note that this is only designed for computer generated text, not handwritten.
The aim of this addon was to generate searchable text for image-heavy notes, it is not intended to produce high quality, perfectly ordered text!
Note that because this addon changes the note template, you will see a warning about changing the database and uploading to AnkiWeb. This is normal.
Usage
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Open the card browser and select the note(s) you want to process. Use the search bar at the top, select tags, decks, etc.
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On the toolbar at the top, select 'Cards', then 'AnkiOCR', and select 'Run AnkiOCR on selected notes', as shown below
- After processing, each of the images in the note will have the ocr data embedded in the
titlehtml tag, viewable as a tooltip:
- If you want to remove the OCR data from any notes, select them and then use the "Remove OCR data from selected notes" option in the menu shown above
If you wish to have the OCR data outputted to a separate 'OCR' field on the note, which will modify your note types in your deck, you can set the text_output_location config option to new_field
If you want to add new languages, you need to download the appropriate language data from here.
Installation
AnkiOCR depends on the Tesseract OCR library.
If you're on Windows or Mac, tesseract is bundled with the addon.
If you're on Linux carefully follow the instructions here
AnkiOCR was built on Python 3.9.
It is highly recommended to to use inside the Anki application, by installing the addon from AnkiWeb If you want to run it externally to anki, see below:
- Ensure you have pyenv and poetry installed
- Then clone the git repo:
git clone https://github.com/cfculhane/AnkiOCR - Setup env and install dependencies
make install
Testing
make test