[CS-FSLUG] Do you know tesseract? or good docs?

[Fred A. Miller]

On 11/14/2013 10:02 PM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> I'm trying to go through some of my old letters, and writings, of which I
> have only paper copies remaining. Discovered Tesseract, and started to use
> it. Simple, and very accurate OCR. But:
>
> suddenly it seems to have quit working. I use Gimp and xsane to prepare a
> tif, or png file for it at 300dpi, and it was doing fine, until it decided
> not to.
>  here's the command I've been using: tesseract ltr-996h-p1.png ltr-996h-p1
> (or the same with a tif file.)
>
> And here is the result:
> tesseract ltr-996h-p1.png ltr-996h-p1
> Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica
> Cannot open input file: ltr-996h-p1.png
>
> I've tried with several different files - same result.  No indication of
> why it will not open the input file. And I find almost no documentation on
> it.

Dave, is your scanner an Epson by chance?

Fred

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