Just installed tesseract as debian package and the en pack came with it automatically. Tom Fowle On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 09:49:03AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
