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   :description: digiKam Right Sidebar Tools View
   :keywords: digiKam, documentation, user manual, photo management, open source, free, learn, easy, tools, post-processing, export

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   :authors: - digiKam Team

   :license: see Credits and License page for details (https://docs.digikam.org/en/credits_license.html)

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Tools View
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The tools view from right sidebar hosts the list of actions available to process actions on selection. The list is an icon-view sorted by categories of tools. This view give a quick preview of all actions from main menu. For example, with the Album View, you can process in batch selected items with an OCR engine to recognize characters from scanned text.

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    The Tools View From Right Sidebar