Re: png2txt -
fred smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:05:22PM -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 11:53 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there an F8 application that will convert a .png copy of a text list
>>> to a text file?
>>>
>>>
>> ----
>> png is a picture file and there is no text.
>>
>> If you want OCR (optical character recognition - software that scans a
>> picture for recognizable text and saves the recognized text to a file),
>> I would suggest tesseract.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks, I will look at that.
>
I believe that Tesseract only understands TIF files, so you will need
to convert the png before you can OCR them.
Yes, I discovered that requirement but now I am stumped by -
The command line is:
tesseract <image.tif> <output> [-l langid]
I thought "-l enUS" might work but no go there.
There's no man page, only a README and that doesn't tell me about the
langid other than it wants it. Without it I get very strange looking text.
Bob