Re: [orca-list] Getting and reading scanned images with Orca

[Hammer Attila <hammera pickup hu>]

Hi luciano,

You try for example ocrfeeder package, hopefuly your distribution this 
application awailable.
This application succesfuly using for example the Tesseract, Cuneiform 
OCR engines. After you recognized the image or more images, have 
possibility to export the recognized document with PDF, txt and odt 
formats. The application generated odt format is not accessible with Orca.
Under Vinux releases awailable the speedy-ocr application, I think this 
is true with Vinux 4.0 too.
Depending your image language, for example need installing the 
tesseract-ocr-eng package if the image containing english text before 
you want using OcrFeeder.

An alternative way if you already installed the tesseract and language 
related Tesseract packages to run following command in terminal:
tesseract imagename output file -l language

My experiences if an image containing for example two pages (for example 
a scanned book often happening this if both two page putted in the 
scanner during scan), increasing the OCR quality if you using the -psm 1 
option.

Tesseract supports more languages, Cuneiform I think support few languages.

Attila