I had downloaded Tesseract earlier, but it had a few problems:
* It wouldn't compile (./configure gave C++ errors).
* It doesn't work on pdf files, only tiffs.
* It doesn't work on files with multiple columns
* It doesn't deskew, despeckle, or do other cleanup needed to get sensible output.
I downloaded OCRopus to try to get around some of the limitations, but without being able to compile Tesseract of course that's all for naught.
Hi,
I have OCR'ed text that needs cleaning.
Lines are delimited by parts of speech (POS), for example,
each line will have either an
adj. OR s. f. OR s. m. etc
I need to uppercase all text before the POS
but all text within parentheses to be lowercase
Text after (and including) the POS... (6 Replies)
I have a large file of plain text, created using some OCR software. Some words have inevitably been got wrong. I've been trying to create grep or sed, etc., regular expressions to find them - but haven't quite managed to get it right. Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
Output all lines which... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to find a way to automate cleanup of OCR for a large number of scanned pages - due to limitations of the access mechanism where these are to end up, I need to create pdf files that include the background text for searching.
Going in I have Tif images too dirty to OCR and re-keyed text... (2 Replies)