OCRopus 0.6 doesn't have any models for German. But the upcoming version of OCRopus (0.7) has good support for German, as well as German Fraktur.
If you want to use Tesseract, the easiest way may be to download pytess from http://code.google.com/p/pytess It includes a drop-in replacement for the regular OCRopus line recognizers; this uses the Tesseract line recognition mode: $ tess-lines 'book/*/*.bin.png' -q $ ocropus-econf 'book/*/*.gt.txt' errors 322 missing 0 total 23542 err 1.368 % errnomiss 1.368 % 0.0136776824399 $ Tom On Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:08:53 AM UTC+1, Christian Pietsch wrote: > > I would like to OCR scans of documents written in German. Surely someone > has already created Ocropus models for German, but during installation, > only English models are downloaded. Please let me know about models that > are free to use at a German university. > > Alternatively, is it still possible to use Ocropus as a preprocessor for > Tesseract? The --tesslanguage option seems to have gone. > > Thank you! > Christian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ocropus/-/tnUZSnoKaEgJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
