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title="UNCONFIRMED - Automatic OCR text overlay in Libreoffice draw. Horrendously annoying and difficult to turn off"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138977">138977</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Automatic OCR text overlay in Libreoffice draw. Horrendously annoying and difficult to turn off
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.4.5.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Draw
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mcconnachieac@gmail.com
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<pre>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</pre>
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