On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:06 AM, EarlWer<[email protected]> 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 > > Next stop: Parse the data and file it... > > > On Jun 13, 12:41 am, EarlWer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Let me update the program. I did an apt-get and got an older >> version. >> >> On Jun 13, 12:32 am, EarlWer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> > > 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. > > > -- Using rsync. How to setup rsyncd. http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/rsync DataHub - create a package that gets, parses, loads, visualizes data http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/DataHub --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
