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Free software for OCR (optical character recognition). See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr . | Free software for OCR (optical character recognition). See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr . | ||
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr | |||
NB you need to install the language specific package for whatever language text you are trying to convert. Tesseract languages are identified by three letter codes like "eng" (for english, the default). | |||
For instance for converting Dutch language documents: | |||
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-nld | |||
[https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=347520&p=4121426 Good Tutorial] | [https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=347520&p=4121426 Good Tutorial] | ||
Revision as of 14:05, 11 June 2019
Free software for OCR (optical character recognition). See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr .
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
NB you need to install the language specific package for whatever language text you are trying to convert. Tesseract languages are identified by three letter codes like "eng" (for english, the default).
For instance for converting Dutch language documents:
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-nld