[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138977] New: Automatic OCR text overlay in Libreoffice draw. Horrendously annoying and difficult to turn off

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138977

            Bug ID: 138977
           Summary: Automatic OCR text overlay in Libreoffice draw.
                    Horrendously annoying and difficult to turn off
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Draw
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mcconnachieac at gmail.com

Description:
I'm not sure this really classes as a 'bug' but more of a sort of interaction
design abomination.

I recently scanned a 100 page or so document. It turned out draw is a pretty
cool program I already had that could take some of those segments of the
documents, save them as different files, and also take out some of the
duplicates that happened from me scanning things twice by mistake. Worked
great.

PROBLEM

EVERY SINGLE wordy page, had OCR text placed on top automatically and I had to
manually delete, and every word had its own separate text box. There is no easy
way to turn this off that I could find through searching the help, looking
around the program or even on a duckduckgo search. When exporting as a PDF it
had this unremovable overlay scrawled all over my important documents.

Someone of my developed high computer skills should  not have to struggle with
this.  I hope this gets addressed asap as I hate bluders like this in great
software and it reinforces the idea that open source software is clunky and
unusable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose a pdf file that is a scan of a computer-produced document with no
actual text - so it is essentially a pdf image.
2. open said pdf file in Draw
3. Gaze in horror

Actual Results:
Dozens and dozens of text boxes appear on top of the words that have to be
manually selected and deleted one by one. Even a scan of my passport picture
produces the letter T on top of my face??

Expected Results:
No text should appear scrawled on top of my scanned documents. At the very most
it should ask me if I want to do such a thing.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.4.5.2 (x64) windows 7

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