# Useful Tools Thread

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/useful-tools-thread/34614>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/useful-tools-thread/34614 "2020-05-11T04:52:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![kpswiney](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kpswiney/32/5232_2.png) [@kpswiney](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kpswiney)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/useful-tools-thread/34614/2 "2021-03-19T17:48:00Z")

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This program can pull text from screenshots and PDFs. It is a front-end to another program, tesseract-ocr.

[gImageReader](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader)

[Tesseract-OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)

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