Sheryl, I arbitrarilly chose to convert the pdf to jpeg as tesseract doesn't do pdf. Then I just did tesseract filename.jpg outfile produces outfile.txt sorry havn't tried .tif and I couldn't find a list of supported file types. tom fowle On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:53:45PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Would you mind enlarging on this if you can and have time? What kind of file did you use and what did you put in your command-line? I am asking this because I have tried to use tesseract a couple of times with tiff files and have gotten mostly gibberish so obviously I am doing something wrong. I am running debian testing if that makes a difference. > > Thanks. > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > > > > On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:13 PM, John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I've been scanning in the D&D 5th Edition player's handbook. I tried every open source OCR program I could find and tesseract was easily the best. On pages that are just prose, it probably does about 99% accuracy. Even on pages where that are 2 columns of prose, it does really well if you tell it to look for that. Somebody sent me a pdf of the same book done with a professional OCR program for Windows. The results are approximately equal. Tesseract may lack the bells & whistles of commercial products but for accuracy, it's pretty good. > > > > > > > > On 11/01/2015 11:24 PM, Tom Fowle wrote: > >> Am I the last to find this? > >> command line ocr tesseract > >> won't directly support .pdf but > >> pdftocairo > >> produces .jpg among others which tesseract will read. > >> > >> May not do well with collumns but not too bad. > >> > >> Is there anything better? > >> > >> Thanks > >> tom Fowle > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > > -- > > John Heim, jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 608-263-4189, skype:john.g.heim, sip:jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
