On 06/13/2010 04:28 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/13/10 09:29, Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Jim<mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 06/06/2010 05:19 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:01 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have a scanned pdf of a very old document which was typewritten >>>>> about half a century ago. The scanned copy is noisy and the letters >>>>> are far from clear. The text can be made out (mostly) by eye, but it >>>>> is 19 pages long and I would like to OCR it to get a digitised text to >>>>> save the eye strain and lots of typing. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. >>>> >>>> If you are having difficulty reading the scan yourself, then you're >>>> probably out of luck getting the computer to OCR it for you. >>>> >>>> Your best bet is to retype it. It's only 19 pages so it shouldn't take >>>> too long to type it again. You'll spend far more time fiddling around >>>> (unsuccessfully) with OCR stuff than it will take to retype it anyway. >>>> >>>> >>> Scanning a Text doc is not going to Save properly in Xsane/Linux, even >>> if you use "gocr" >>> Scanning and "Saving Text" is broken. >>> >>> As far as how a text looks on your terminal after scanning, It always >>> looks bad. You have to Save As" to get good finish product, and again >>> "Save As" Text is broken in Xsane. only Images turn out after "Saving" >>> >> Can you use the "copy/paste" (Select the text and Edit->Copy) pipe? >> >> (I suppose I should grab the current ocr downloads and give them a >> try. I have to say, it seems like about four years ago, all the open >> source ocr projects just stopped moving.) >> > I'm using *tesseract* for extracting text from a tiff (scan with xsane > into .tif) file containing text and get good results: > > yum install tesseract > > What command in tesseract do you use to extract the tiff file ? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
