Problem using Gocr

**GlassFish** · 05-01-2010

Hello,
I have a little trouble with using gocr, let me explain. I have a picture with characters (eg author name), to get this string, I decided to use gocr I use the following way:

Code:

convert image.jpg image.pnm | gocr --

Unfortunately, the result is not what I expected. In fact here is that the court order me output:

Code:

______________0__a__

Can anyone help me? Thank you for everything.

**kelfro** · 05-01-2010

hi,
I use Tesseract. Initially I wanted to transcribe a leaf , as it got out of something quite wizard, I looked and saw that tesseract was based on a list of words in English so I ' I add word in other language and it work more better. But it is still keyword wizard. Try it once, if you like it then continue with it or else just look for any other software which fulfills your requirement.

**Reegan** · 05-01-2010

Hi
This is what you are doing

convert image.jpg image.pnm | gocr --

Convert does not review ... it simply write the second file from the first using any treatment. You probably have to do:

Code:

convert image.jpg image.pnm
cat image.pnm | gocr --

By my knowledge this should work with you, if you have any more queries then do post back.

**GlassFish** · 05-01-2010

Hello,
The result is identical in effect to a

Code:

convert test.jpg test.pnm
cat test.pnm | gocr --

return to

Code:

convert test.jpg test.pnm
gocr test.pnm

which is roughly equivalent to:

Code:

convert test.jpg test.pnm | gocr --

My cmd works very well, I squeezed from the tube "test.pnm" that is passed in parameter to gocr which is responsible for processing the image.

**kelfro** · 05-01-2010

Hello

The result is identical

I'm not sure, instead I think
" ~% Convert img015.jpg img015.png> pl.png
~% Ll img015.jpg img015.png pl.png
-rw ------- 1 Rom own 1614547 2009-07-24 13:49 img015.jpg
-rw-r - r - 1 Rom own 18201460 2009-07-25 17:42 img015.png
-rw-r - r - 1 Rom own 0000 2009-07-25 16:42 pl.png"
Check the output you got with this one and compare both of them.

**GlassFish** · 05-01-2010

Hi
Yes, finally I think I have got an appropriate solution for me not the best still I won't mind it. Anyway reading is allowed for the owner, then me. Although I am probably misspoke, the result is identical, ie: gocr takes parameter file. Pnm converted with convert, not the jpeg file passed as argument to convert.