cuneiform(1)

NAME

   cuneiform - multi-language OCR system

SYNOPSIS

   cuneiform   [--dotmatrix]  [--fax]  [--singlecolumn]  [-f  format]  [-l
   language] [-o output] input

DESCRIPTION

   Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to  text  recognition  it  also
   does  layout  analysis  and text format recognition. Cuneiform supports
   several languages.

OPTIONS

   --dotmatrix
       Use recognition mode optimized for text printed with a  dot  matrix
       printer.

   --fax
       Use recognition mode optimized for text that has been faxed.

   --singlecolumn
       Disable page layout analysis and assumes that the image consists of
       only one column of text.

   -f format
       Select output format. The following  formats  are  available:  html
       (HTML  format),  hocr  (hOCR HTML format), native (native Cuneiform
       2000),  rtf  (RTF  format),  smarttext   (plain   text   with   TeX
       paragraphs), text (plain text).  The default is plain text.

   -l language
       By  default  Cuneiform  recognizes  English  text.  To  change  the
       language use the command line switch -l followed by a language code
       (typically an ISO 639-2 three-letter code). The following languages
       are supported:

       bul      Bulgarian
       cze      Czech
       dan      Danish
       dut      Dutch
       eng      English
       est      Estonian
       fra      French
       ger      German
       hrv      Croatian
       hun      Hungarian
       ita      Italian
       lav      Latvian
       lit      Lithuanian
       pol      Polish
       por      Portugese
       rum      Romanian
       rus      Russian
       ruseng   mixed Russian/English
       slv      Slovenian
       spa      Spanish
       srp      Serbian
       swe      Swedish

       tur      Turkish
       ukr      Ukrainian

   -o output
       If you do not define an output file with the -o  switch,  Cuneiform
       writes  the  result  to  a  file  'cuneiform-out.format'.  The file
       extension depends on your output format.

INPUT FORMAT

   Cuneiform can process any single-page image that  GraphicsMagick  knows
   how to open. Please consult the gm(1) manual page for the comprehensive
   list of supported image formats.

HOMEPAGE

   More    information    about    cuneiform    can    be     found     at
   <http://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/>.

AUTHOR

   cuneiform  was  written  by  Cognitive  Technologies and Jussi Pakkanen
   <[email protected]>.

   This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>, for
   the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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