On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:26 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. ---- I've never used Acrobat Professional for OCR but I have gotten excellent results from tesseract on Linux. OP should check out... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061210115516438&query=tesseract http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9676 Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
