Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image, Folder containing Images or screenshot. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. Lios is written in python3, and we release it under GPL-3 license. There are great many possibilities for this program, Feedback is the key to it, Expecting your feedback.
- Import images from Scanner, PDFs, Folder, or Webcam,
- Take and Recognize Screenshot,
- Recognize Selected Areas(Rectangle selection),
- Support two OCR Engines (Cuneiform,Tesseract),
- Text-Cleaner - Post process your output with match-replace dialog,
- Full Auto Rotation for any Language(If aspell installed for the language, Eg : "sudo apt-get install aspell-hi" for Hindi,
- Side by side view of image and output
- Advanced Scanner Brightness optimizer,
- Text Reader for low vision with Highlighting, With user selected Color, Font, and Background Color,
- Audio converter(espeak),
- Spell-checker(aspell),
- Export as pdf (text/images),
- Dictionary Support for English(Artha)
- Options for save, load and reset settings,
- Other options - Find, Find-and-Replace, Go-To-Page, Go-To-Line, Append file, Punch File, Selection of starting page number, page numbering mode and number of pages to scan, Selection of Scan area, brightness, resolution and time between repeated scanning, Output Insert position, image rotation and zoom options, etc
Dependency list : python3, python3-imaging-sane|python3-sane, python3-speechd, tesseract-ocr, imagemagick, cuneiform, espeak,poppler-utils, python3-enchant,aspell-en, gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0, gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0
git clone https://github.com/zendalona/lios.git
cd lios
python3 setup.py install --install-data=/usr
Following the third step for a system-wide installation is not necessary. You can use the following commands instead, as long as you have all the dependecies installed. This will be useful if you are a Lios developer.
export PYTHONPATH=.
bin/lios --datadir 'share/lios'
Forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lios
Home Page : http://zendalona.com/lios/
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