{"id":21973,"date":"2019-01-22T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=21973"},"modified":"2019-01-22T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:52:14","slug":"paperwork-free-desktop-ocr-and-search-in-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/paperwork-free-desktop-ocr-and-search-in-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperwork – free desktop OCR and search, in open source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paperwork, a new addition to my A quick guide to desktop search software<\/a> post…<\/p>\n

Paperwork<\/a>, free open-source software to help a scholar get to grips with their PDF pile, without hooking into some online service that wants to gouge your data — it OCR’s all your PDFs and other documents and then searches across them quickly. <\/p>\n

You need a big chunk of spare disk space, it seems, because if you have 25Gb of stuffed-full folders, Paperwork will want to copy all of them over to its own C:\\Users\\YOURNAME\\papers\\ folder to OCR them. That makes sense, I guess, so you keep a copy of the original non OCR’d file. But at the cost of using significant disk space for duplicated files.<\/p>\n

It comes with optional OCR interpreters for the world’s current languages, but so far as I can see it won’t do German ‘black letter’ (for which you need this<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Under “Settings” there is a “Send anonymous usage statistics” check-box, but this is turned off by default. <\/p>\n

It looks good, but suffers from a non-standard Windows user interface which doesn’t appeal. But one could theoretically use it only as the software that watches your “Papers” folder and auto-OCRs any new PDF placed there (for which there seems no other free non-cloud competitor with a GUI). Then you’d point dtSearch at C:\\Users\\YOURNAME\\papers\\ for indexing, and use the powerful dtSearch interface for your actual searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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