FICHA · AUR

cups-ocr

Print directly to a tiff file which feeds an OCR engine which will output a text file. Modelled after cups-pdf.

  • printing-plugin
  • PRINTING
  • OCR
official+codex · reviewed · May 31, 2026 description in en

Description

Printed documents can be routed through a virtual printer that creates a TIFF image and sends it to OCR for text output. This is useful when applications can print content but cannot export selectable text directly.

OCR output may contain mistakes and printed data may include private documents. Review storage paths, permissions, and extracted text before relying on it.

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