For what it's worth, I've found that using tesseract on Ubuntu 10.10 only works if the .tiff extension is spelled with only on "f" (i.e. .tif).
If you're sure you've got everything installed (including libtiff), give that a try and see if it helps. Regards, Will On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Giby_the_kid <[email protected]>wrote: > Some years ago, I was using tesseract and was very satisfied of the > result, I tried to use it on a new computer, and it doesn't work. > > [papa@localhost ~]$ tesseract out.tiff text.txt -l fra > Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine > name_to_image_type:Error:Unrecognized image type:out.tiff > IMAGE::read_header:Error:Can't read this image type:out.tiff > tesseract:Error:Read of file failed:out.tiff > Erreur de segmentation (core dumped) > [papa@localhost ~]$ > > Have I forgotten anything? should I install something else to make it > work properly? > > OS mandriva 2010.2-64 bit, tesseract: 2.04 i586 with tesseract-fra > > thanks > > -- > 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 > -- 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
