Option to display OCR'ed text

[eric-saintetienne]

As of 2.0, the OCR text is displayed on top of the image, as an overlay. Displaying the OCR'ed text in a text area would be useful, at least to check that OCR worked as expected (not many recognition errors) but also to select/copy the OCR'ed text to the clipboard for saving.

For the implementation, it's up to you, I think a textarea could be added under the metadata, on the right hand side of a file, or it could be a separate page containing a textarea and accessed via a new entry in the contextual (right click) menu for a given document.

The alternative is to open the image viewer and do Ctrl+A, but there are problems:

1. Ctrl+A selects the whole page, including a bunch of other text (whatever is displayed on the page, like the html div and spans)
2. Once selected with Cltr+A the overlayed OCR'ed text is still hard to read (it's not as readable as a textearea)

Thanks!

[ajarzyn]

Hello @eric-saintetienne,

You already can do this, but I must admit that this option is rather hidden, so maybe good suggestion would be to make it more accessible.

How to view OCRed text of the page:

1. Open your document
2. Select this icon in the left top corner:
3. Select page you would like to see OCR from (this is important without selection option won't work)
4. Press right mouse button on the page
5. Select "View OCRed text"

I may make a pull request to add this description to documentation. @ciur would that be a good idea?

[ciur]

Feature is available in 2.1.0x and it is more intuitive to use. Here is a quick demos: