converting graphics on a text console

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
A few points.
1.  for OCR under linux, use tesseract and ocropus.
The results is a lot better than with gocr or ocrad.
2.  for converting images, use the convert command provided by the 
ImageMagic package.
Ocropus/tesseract is a little slow, but worth the effort to get going.
With convert, you can do a lot of other nice things on images like change 
them from collor to blak and white or change the contrast and so on.
HTH, Willem


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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> Does anyone have any advice for me? I have a text-only system here, no
> X or Gnome. Someone scanned a document for me, and sent it as a pdf
> file. I use pdftotext of course, but evidently the pdf file contains
> only image data, so pdftottext just gave me garbage. Maybe. At least it
> looks like garbage.
> 
> So what now? I can use gocr or ocrad to try pulling text out of the
> image, except I somehow need to convert the image data in the pdf file
> to gif first. Has anyone done anything like this in a text console? I
> have successfully used OCR software on .gif files, but how do I get
> from pdf to gif? 
> 
> Man, it's tough persuading folks that an image of a document that
> appears perfectly readable on a graphics screen is not really text of
> the sort I can handle in a text console. 
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Chuck
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