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NAME

ocr - perform ocr on an image and output text to stdout

DESCRIPTION

This is just an interface to make it quick an easy to get ocr output from an image file. No matter what image type you provide, imagemagick convert is called to turn it into the format for tesseract.

USAGE

ocr [OPTION]... FILE...

   -b          blowup (useful for small images)
   -d          debug
   -h          help
   -l string   language
   -v          version

EXAMPLE USAGE

   ocr ./image.jpg > ./savetext.txt
   ocr ./image.png
   ocr ./image1.jpg ./image2.jpg > ./alltext.txt
   ocr ./image*jpg

SEE ALSO

Image::OCR::Tesseract - parent package tesseract - look up google ocr project convert - from ImageMagick suite.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010 Leo Charre. All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

DISCLAIMER

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.