[ubuntu-za] OCR on Ubuntu

[Jedri Visser]

Or also from that thread, maybe add a -depth 8 parameter

On 10 April 2013 13:31, Jedri Visser <lists at jedrivisser.com> wrote:
> 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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