On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bob Goodwin USA <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > fred smith wrote: >>>>> Is there an F8 application that will convert a .png copy of a text list >>>>> to a text file? >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> png is a picture file and there is no text. >>>> >>>> If you want OCR (optical character recognition - software that scans a >>>> picture for recognizable text and saves the recognized text to a file), >>>> I would suggest tesseract. >>> >>> Thanks, I will look at that. >>> >> >> I believe that Tesseract only understands TIF files, so you will need >> to convert the png before you can OCR them. >> >> > > Yes, I discovered that requirement but now I am stumped by - > > The command line is: > tesseract <image.tif> <output> [-l langid] > > I thought "-l enUS" might work but no go there. > > There's no man page, only a README and that doesn't tell me about the langid > other than it wants it. Without it I get very strange looking text. Unfortunately, the OCR programs working in Linux are not very good yet. In case you have access to Acrobat Professional, use it instead; the results are usually excellent. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
