OCR on linux

[Willem van der Walt]

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.
> 
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