OCR - Optical Character Recognition OCR is a technology that allows you to convert scanned images of text into plain text. This enables you to save space, edit the text and search/index it. Available OCR tools The Ubuntu Universe repositories contain the following OCR tools: fuzzyocr - spamassassin plugin to check image attachments gocr - a command line OCR libhocr0 - Hebrew OCR ocrad - OCR progra