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How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT
With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.

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ocrfeeder-cli

ocrfeeder-cli(1)					      General Commands Manual						  ocrfeeder-cli(1)

NAME

       ocrfeeder-cli - command line interface for OCRFeeder, a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

SYNOPSIS

       ocrfeeder-cli [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ocrfeeder-cli command.

       OCRFeeder  Given  the  images it will automatically outline its contents, distinguish between what's graphics and text and perform OCR over
       the latter. It generates multiple formats being its main one ODT.

OPTIONS

   Generic program information
       --version
	      Show program version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      Show help message and exit

   Required options
       -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output=OUTPUT_FILE
	      Name for the generated file

   Other options
       -i IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...], --images=IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...]
	      Images to be recognized

       -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
	      Format for the generated document (odt or html)

       --window-size=WINDOW_SIZE
	      Desired window size of OCRFeeder's segmentation algorithm. If this option is not used, the window size will be calculated  automati-
	      cally

FOLDERS

       ~/.ocrfeeder/engines/
	      Folder to hold the engines' configuration files

SEE ALSO

       ocrfeeder(1)

AUTHOR

       This manpage has been written by Joaquim Rocha <jrocha@igalia.com> and Alberto Garcia <agarcia@igalia.com>

								    2010-11-19							  ocrfeeder-cli(1)

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