png2txt -

[Bob Goodwin USA]

fred smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:05:22PM -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 11:53 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Is there an F8 application that will convert a .png copy of a text list 
>>>> to a text file?
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> png is a picture file and there is no text.
>>>
>>> If you want OCR (optical character recognition - software that scans a
>>> picture for recognizable text and saves the recognized text to a file),
>>> I would suggest tesseract.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> Thanks, I will look at that.
>>     
>
> I believe that Tesseract only understands TIF files, so you will need
> to convert the png before you can OCR them.
>
>   
Yes, I discovered that requirement but now I am stumped by -

    The command line is:
    tesseract <image.tif> <output> [-l langid]

I thought "-l enUS" might work but no go there.

There's no man page, only a README and that doesn't tell me about the 
langid other than it wants it.  Without it I get very strange looking text.

Bob