#5446·sumatrapdf

OCR / Barcode reading

Author: GitHubRulesOKCreated Mar 30, 2026Updated Sep 13, 2026

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Mutool has the ability to create Barcodes and "OCR" them or images Here is a QR generated and read in 1.28.0.32bit

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Describe the solution you'd like I do understand Barcode (and Tesseract) are a significant code uplift, but both features are desirable in a Document/Image "Reader" and

Describe alternatives you've considered At one time Mupdf had 2 variants (with and without Tesseract)

Possibly the best alternative PDF GUI OCR using tesseract is dedicated gImageReader as it can work inside a PDF on images that were not underlaid by OCR the issue is with that power it is 691 MB (725,155,840 bytes) using 1,344 Files, 397 Folders and not easy to use in discrete areas. (browsers perform better for that task.)

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