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> Am 18.12.2018 um 20:10 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion
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> And this is one of the reasons I hate acronyms, so easy to mix up
> words with related meanings and the same first letter. Probably
> doesn't help that, I
OK, this is a nit, but the O in OCR stands for "Optical," not "Ocular."
It's about the process based on vision, not on the organ that is
sensitive to light. Machines don't have eyes, biological beings have
eyes.
Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> What you're looking for is Ocular
which image formats either program supports
directly, nor do I know of a good way to convert between image
formats, though I'm pretty sure cuneiform supports at least .jpg and
.png files directly.
I also remember at least one OCR tutorial recommending some
preprocessing to make images easier
Disclaimer: I don't know which image formats either program supports
directly, nor do I know of a good way to convert between image
formats, though I'm pretty sure cuneiform supports at least .jpg and
.png files directly.
I also remember at least one OCR tutorial recommending some
preprocessing
What you're looking for is Ocular Character Recognition or OCR for short.
I've never managed to figure out its command line syntax, but I
believe tesseract is considered the current standard option for Linux.
There's also Cuneiform, which I have actually used with some success
in the past, but I
Has Linux for us command line users got a tool that can extract text from
png files? I got a couple sent me and if possible I'd like to read them.
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ct: Re: png files
What you're looking for is Ocular Character Recognition, OCR for
short, software. The two available for Linux I know of are Tesseract
and Cuneiform. I haven't much experience with Tesseract, but its been
a while since I used Cuneiform and if I remember correctly, Cuneiform
pr
What you're looking for is Ocular Character Recognition, OCR for
short, software. The two available for Linux I know of are Tesseract
and Cuneiform. I haven't much experience with Tesseract, but its been
a while since I used Cuneiform and if I remember correctly, Cuneiform
produced gibberish about
Hi!
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:41:04 -0400
Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:
> Has Linux any tools to extract text from png files?
>
Read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition or "OCR"
for short. PNG may h
