OCR plugin
- Download the self-extracting EXE and launch
- Set extract folder to your Plugins directory (or App\IrfanView\Plugins for the PA version)
- From the Options menu, select Start OCR
- Select dictionary and optional spelling program
- Draw a box around the text you want from the preview window (there is no "save all")
The program will open a separate Notepad with the text.
To open PDF files (Thanks to Joby)
- On the download page, click on the latest version
- Download the 32 or 64-bit EXE (where XXX is the version number: gsXXXw32.exe or gsXXXw64.exe)
- Open this file using 7-zip
- In the folder $_OUTDIR\bin\, copy the file gsdll32.dll to a directory of your choice (I saved it to the Plugins directory)
- From the menu, select Options - Properties/Settings
- Choose Plugins from the white box
- Choose PostScript Options and click Custom Path
- Enter the full directory location of the DLL file
- For example: if you saved it to your plugins folder on the Z:\ drive, your directory will look something like z:\portable programs\IrfanView\Plugins\gsdll32.dll or z:\portable programs\IrfanViewPortable\App\IrfanView\Plugins\gsdll32.dll)
- Select OK on the dialog box for that window and then OK for the one below it
- Drag and drop any PDF to the IrfanView window
( I tried to use relative paths above as Joby suggested, but couldn't figure out the root folder. )