How To Install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-qt in Fedora 36. gimagereader-qt is A Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36.

What is gimagereader-qt

gImageReader is a simple front-end to tesseract. Features include - Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Process multiple images and documents in one go - Manual or automatic recognition area definition - Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking - Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents This package contains the Qt front-end.

We can use yum or dnf to install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gimagereader-qt.

Install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gimagereader-qt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gimagereader-qt

Install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gimagereader-qt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gimagereader-qt

How To Uninstall gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gimagereader-qt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gimagereader-qt

gimagereader-qt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gimagereader-qt5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/a68325065424151cc06ba4d9a689013b7159d2
/usr/share/applications/gimagereader-qt5.desktop
/usr/share/metainfo/gimagereader-qt5.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gimagereader-qt on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).