The different ocr engines differ on which formats they supported, but install imagemagic and use a command like convert file.jpg file.png to get the image into the correct format for the engine. ocropus used to require png but I susspect now-a-days it might accept other image formats too. There are some test images with most engines when you build from source. On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Willem van der Walt wrote: > > > You can try tesseract or another ocr engine without having sane working if > > you have an image file that you know has text in like a .tif file or so. > > Oh, is jpeg supported? > Or how can I get a tif on windows? I know someone with a windows scanner > setup. > > > Sane is needed to get the stuff from the paper in the scanner into an > > image file. > > yep > > > Note: the current latest svn version of ocropus does not run, try a > > version from about two weeks ago. > > Oh ok. I will. Thanks. > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list