Hey, it turns out that GNOME's "Document Scanner" application (Simple Scan) actually _can_ do Optical Character Recognition, running a post-processing script. It's just really, really, really not obvious (nor easy to set up): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/1#note_2713733

As a stopgap, here's my proposed UI lipstick fix just so that the existing UI's purpose can be understood: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/merge_requests/322

I'm hoping to see a built-in implementation someday.

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