command line scanned pdf to text

[Willem van der Walt]

cuneiform is IMHO a better OCR engine than tesseract.
It is available as a package under ubuntu.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I am sure tiff is supported. It is really strange. I get what look like words and what I get is the same every time I do a scan of the same image but they are nonsense. I even tried adding the designation for English thinking somehow it wasn't using English but got the same results. I know the image file is okay because it comes out fine using ABBY FineReader Express on my Mac.
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> Cheryl
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> 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)
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>> On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 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 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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