On debian, it is tesseract-ocr-eng and it may or may not be installed with the main package; I don't remember having to do it separately but I have it. -- 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 4, 2015, at 9:11 AM, John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On ubuntu it's tesseract-ocr-en. > > > > On 11/04/2015 09:01 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> What data pack for tesseract has the english language in it? I'm being >> prompted to download a data pack and I figure best get what language I >> understand rather than the whole data set since both memory and disk >> space over here are not unlimited. >> >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >>> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:39:38 >>> From: Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: Re: command line scanned pdf to text >>> >>> Thanks much. No, the way to get into a turned-off computer far away >>> hasn't been invented yet, unless you can turn it on by remote control >>> somehow - :-) >>> I suspect the error was mine so I won't give up on it yet. >>> >>> 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 4:06 PM, John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Huh, it strikes me as strange that tesseract didn't work for you. I >>>> used tesseract last week to read a page in a pdf document that was >>>> stored as an image. I used pdftohtml to extract the image and then >>>> tesseract to convert it to text. I also pretty routinely use >>>> tesseract to read screen capture images. It's not very accurate there >>>> but it's usually good enough to make sense of. >>>> >>>> Just "tesseract <infile> <outfile>" should work. The infile can be >>>> the string "stdin" in which case it read from standard input. The >>>> outfile can be "stdout" in which case it writes the text to stdout. >>>> Right off hand, I do not have the command line I use to scan the D&D >>>> book. It's on a computer at home that is turned off at the moment. >>>> But I can post the whole thing tonight. Here are some lines from a >>>> backup version of the script: >>>> >>>> scanimage --format=tiff --mode Lineart --resolution 600 > /tmp/page.tiff >>>> tesseract /tmp/page.tiff stdout >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/02/2015 02:53 PM, 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >> > > -- > 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
