A reliable ocr program for Fedora

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:44:01PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:45:20PM -0700, jd1008 wrote:
> > Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to
> > work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted
> > as they are public documents like from the DMV, ... etc.
> 
> Last time I used tesseract (4 or 5 years, perhaps) it processed ONLY
> TIFF images. You need to convert other forms of image to a TIFF. Having
> done that, I found that it worked pretty well.  In the intervening time
> it may have undergone improvements, as well.

Also, it seemed to work best with certain resolutions, if I can recall
it correctly, it was either 150 dpi or 300 dpi.

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