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OCR for PDF in Ubuntu
By admin | July 8, 2008
To get OCR in Ubuntu, you need to use the Open-Source Tesseract OCR engine. However, it can only perform OCR on the TIFF format. In order to allow it to do PDF, we also need the Evince PDF reader to allow us to export a page to TIFF to feed Tesseract with.
Install tesseract in Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
Now, get the TIFF from Evince; Right click the page and click “Save image as…” and export the file. Then, to get a good OCR we need to convert it to monochrome.
$ tesseract foo.tif bar
Unable to load unicharset file /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/eng.unicharset
If the above bug happens, fix it by:
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
This is caused by a nasty bug in Ubuntu.
And now finally, do:
$ tesseract foo.tif bar# and without the .txt extension, or you will end up with bar.txt.txt
to complete it!
Topics: Linux |
June 11th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Thanks mate, exactly what I was searching for.