Inkscape Extension using tesseract_ocr to read text from Image
Note: Currently supported only for debian users and Inkscape v1.0+
sudo apt-get install -y libpng-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf automake libtool checkinstall tesseract-ocr python3-dev
pip3 install pytesseract cairosvg
Copy files ocr_extension.inx
and ocr_extension.py
to extensions directory
For root users /usr/share/inkscape/extension
For non-root users ~/.config/inkscape/extensions