cuneiform is IMHO a better OCR engine than tesseract.
It is available as a package under ubuntu.
Regards, Willem
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I am sure tiff is supported. It is really strange. I get what look like words and what I get is the same every time I do a scan of the same image but they are nonsense. I even tried adding the designation for English thinking somehow it wasn't using English but got the same results. I know the image file is okay because it comes out fine using ABBY FineReader Express on my Mac.
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On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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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
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