Image tools

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Image tools

  1. GIMP
    1. To rotate images in gimp: Image > Transform > Rotate
    2. To crop, Tools > Transform tools > Crop (or, just use the Crop icon from the panel on the left side).
    3. After editing, right click on the image, File > Overwrite <filename> to save the changes.
  2. img2pdf (to convert images into pdf documents) - (usage: in terminal: $ img2pdf img1.png img2.jpg -o out.pdf) (img2pdf –help)
  3. Ristretto - Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment. 
    pacman -S ristretto
  4. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools (Image to Text)
    1. Neither of the two mentioned below worked as good as the convertion tools online.
    2. gimagereader-qt Don’t forget to choose tesseract-data-eng as the language 
      sudo pacman -S gimagereader-qt
    3. tesseract 
      sudo pacman -S tesseract

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