Questions relating to Optical Character Recognition (ocr)
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Pdfsandwich with tesseract OCR
I tried to add a textlayer to some pdf files in order to make them searchable. This technique is explained in the german Ubuntu wiki: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/pdfsandwich .
After installing ...
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Is there an Ubuntu note app that allows printing to PDF similar to MS OneNote?
I am interested in uploading OCR capable documents to an application that allows me to easily scan or click from one file to another within a collection of finance papers, without needing to open each ...
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Abbyy fine reader like application for Ubuntu 13.04
I have a lot of images and what I want to do is to scan those images and get output in ms word file that can be edited later. For Windows, I have Abbyy fine reader. But I don't want to go back to ...
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Convertion of tiff image in Python script - OCR using tesseract
I want to convert a tiff image file to text document. My code perfectly as I expected to convert tiff images with usual font but its not working for french script font . My tiff image file contains ...
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How can instantaneously extract text from a screen area using OCR tools?
In Ubuntu 12.10, if I type
gnome-screenshot -a | tesseract output
it returns:
** Message: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11.
How can I select a ...
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How to wildcard tesseract?
I want tesseract to convert all the files of a folder. I do not want to merge the files in any way as I am having trouble with programs like hocr2pdf and pdfbeads merging more than one file at a time.
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pdfbeads will only output a single page
Following the instructions from this page
I take a djvu document, check it for any sign of corruption by opening it in djvulibre and it checks out fine. Copy it to my testing folder and rename it
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batch tesseract conversion
I am trying to OCR a book using tesseract however I do not want to type each individual page as it is a book near 1000 pages. How would I accomplish this
I tried tesseract *.tif *
which gives me this
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converting djvu to pdf trouble with this OCR preserving code
I want to convert djvu to pdf while preserving OCR. This page describes how to do so, but I am getting a blank html file.
In /home/steven/Documents/djvu2pdf/1/, djvu2hocr -p 1 Intro.djvu gives me:
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How do I produce a multi-page sandwich pdf with hocr2pdf?
I used tesseract to produce the special html to use with hocr2pdf starting from a muti-page tif.
I tried using hoc2pdf to produce a "sandwich pdf" (image + hidden text layer).
Hocr2pdf produces a ...
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document management private users
i am searching for a document management system that supports:
can bulk scan documents
automatic OCR of scanned documents
data storage on my local HD / external server of my choice
automatic ...
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How do I edit text in a scanned .jpeg?
I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document.
After scanning the document, I have a .jpeg with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload.
I have never done this ...
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Adding OCR info to a PDF
I have a good quality scan of a document; such scan is in pdf format.
How can I add ocr information to the pdf, so that it becomes searchable? By searchable I mean that the goal is that when viewing ...
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Error in installing GOCR
When I tried to install GOCR on Ubuntu Linux 11.10 I got the following readout in the terminal
??????????:~$ cd gocr-0.48; make install
./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler ...
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How can I extract text from images?
How can I extract text from images?
I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; ...
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Why is ocrodjvu not working while tesseract is? [closed]
I can use tesseract v3.01 successfully. For example
$ tesseract toc.tif output -l chi_sim
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.01 with Leptonica
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
But with ocrodjvu ...
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Tesseract and OCRopus
I was wondering what relations are between Tesseract and OCRopus?
Is OCRopus a wrapper of Tesseract? Or are they now developing
independently?
What are some advantages of one over the other?
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How to add OCRed text to original pdf in gscan2pdf? [closed]
I am new to gscan2pdf 0.9.31, and just used it to OCR a scanned pdf.
After saving the pdf, the OCRed text is stored on the top left corner. However I wish each OCRed character to be added to exactly ...
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How can I specify the language to be used by Tesseract when using OCRFeeder
I'm using the OCR-utility of OCRFeeder. OCRFeeder is using the tesseract-engine. I have installed the several language-packs needed for tesseract. How can I set the language such that tesseract will ...
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What's the best, simplest OCR solution?
I'd like to scan a good amount of papers I have lying around, with the least possible hassle. I would like to convert them to images using Simple Scan, then convert them to text using OCR. Is there a ...
