[ubuntu-za] OCR on Ubuntu

[Jedri Visser]

It seems that the file type is derived from the extension in the file name.
.tif is not supported but .tiff is, so just rename your input file.

from:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14021705/tesseract-training-gives-cannot-open-input-file-error

I hope this helps


On 10 April 2013 08:04, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:

>  Is there anybody who can enlighten me about a successful OCR facility on
> Ubuntu 12.04?
>
> I have tried a few times, but with limited or no success. My latest
> attempt was Tesserect, but the system does not even seem to open the
> software, after installing from Synaptic I followed the guidelines in
> Askubuntu and ran
>
> tesseract imagefile.tif outputfile.txt
>
>
> and the result was
>
> Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica
> Cannot open input file: imagefile.tif
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jan
>
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