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

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

No, Fred. My scanner is part of a much-too-big Brother MFC printer.. But
I've finally got it set up so it works really well.


> 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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