command line scanned pdf to text

[Tom Fowle]

Sheryl,
I  arbitrarilly chose to convert the pdf to jpeg as tesseract doesn't do
pdf.

Then I just did
tesseract filename.jpg  outfile
produces
outfile.txt

sorry havn't tried .tif and I couldn't find a list of supported file types.

tom fowle

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:53:45PM -0600, 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.
> 
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> Cheryl
> 
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> > On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:13 PM, John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I've been scanning in the D&D 5th Edition player's handbook. I tried every open source OCR program I could find and tesseract was easily the best. On pages that are just prose, it probably does about 99% accuracy. Even on pages where that are 2 columns of prose, it does really well if you tell it to look for that. Somebody sent me a pdf of the same book done with a professional OCR program for Windows. The results are approximately equal. Tesseract may lack the bells & whistles of commercial products but for accuracy, it's pretty good.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 11/01/2015 11:24 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> >> Am I the last to find this?
> >>  command line ocr tesseract
> >> won't directly support .pdf but
> >> pdftocairo
> >> produces .jpg among others which tesseract will read.
> >> 
> >> May not do well with collumns but not too bad.
> >> 
> >> Is there anything better?
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> tom Fowle
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