Need general help

[spectrum]

Hi all. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.

I have installed tesseract via the Ubuntu repositories, via synaptic
package manager.

Can someone please point me to a link where it teaches me how to
operate tesseract? I've tried typing tesseract into the command-line
(brought up via F2) but nothing happens.

I've also tried (from http://www.howtoforge.com/ocr_with_tesseract_on_ubuntu704)

tesseract %tiff_file% %name_for_resulting_files%

e.g.: tesseract document.tif result

With different file names.

Is there a specific location the files need to be in? I've followed
the steps previous from the howtoforge, I have uncompressed tifs.

I need really general and basic help, being quite new to Ubuntu. A
link would do.

Thanks!

[paulfeakins]

Hi Spectrum,

Always good to hear more people are using Linux :)

First thing I'd suggest is to use an actual terminal window instead of
pressing F2. That way you'll be able to see what output you get and
whether there's been an error.

In Ubuntu (8.10) go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal. You
might have to type "sudo" before every command so that you have the
necessary permissions. i.e. "sudo tesseract..."

Have a good look through the wiki http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/w/list

Also, I seem to remember there's an issue with 2.03 where it needs a
patch before it will run on Ubuntu, so if it doesn't work, paste the
error message back to this thread and someone will point you in the
right direction!

Hope that helps,
Paul.

[nguyenq]

You can use a user-friendly frontend for Tesseract on Linux.

http://vietocr.sf.net

[Sherilyn Lim]

Thank you very much everyone!

It's working now :D

[EarlWer]

I have a similar problem. Ubuntu 8.04 server, so no GUI ;-(
I want to convert incoming faxes received by hylafax in .tif format.

When I run tesseract: sudo tesseract fax000000083.tif ocrtest
it displays 'Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine', thinks for a 10
seconds and doesn't seem to do anything.

No logs, no ocrtest.txt nothing.

Any ideas?
Is there a debug mode? --verbose flag?

On May 12, 6:06 am, paulfeakins <paulfeak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Spectrum,
>
> Always good to hear more people are using Linux :)
>
> First thing I'd suggest is to use an actual terminal window instead of
> pressing F2. That way you'll be able to see what output you get and
> whether there's been an error.
>
> In Ubuntu (8.10) go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal. You
> might have to type "sudo" before every command so that you have the
> necessary permissions. i.e. "sudo tesseract..."
>

> Have a good look through the wikihttp://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/w/list

[EarlWer]

Let me update the program. I did an apt-get and got an older
version.

[EarlWer]

Solved! I downloaded version 2.03 and now it works.
Now I've got hylafax receiving the faxes, converting to .pdf with an
OCR .txt file.

Next stop: Parse the data and file it...

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:06 AM, EarlWer<ear...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Solved!  I downloaded version 2.03 and now it works.
> Now I've got hylafax receiving the faxes, converting to .pdf with an
> OCR .txt file.

Hello,

How is the quality of the converted text?
What are some of the commands that you are using? Could you copy and paste few.

Anything special that needs to be done between hylafax and tesseract?

Thanks,
Lucas

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