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OCR softwarefor reading jpg or GNU format files

Asked by abeynayake

could someone help me with a software that can be used in ubuntu 11.04 version to read jpg or GNU file exetensions i am new to ubuntu and complete installation guide is requested

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR

Says:

ocrfeeder-cli -i input1.jpg -f html -o output.htm

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

If you use imagemagick to convert the image to a TIF (not a TIFF) file, you can use:

tesseract ~/input.tif ~/Desktop/output

The 'output' file will automatically get given the .txt extension

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