I have Linux Mint 17.3.

I am looking for an optical character recognition program to use. So far I have not found one:

OCRFeeder - the characters in the output text are about 75% wrong.

XSane - gives me an error message saying 'no such folder exists'.

The two below are command line:

Cuneiform - when I move to the appropriate directory and type in "cuneiform myscan.jpg" it says that "Majick" is unable to open the file.

Tesseract - when I move to the appropriate directory and type in "tesseract myscan.jpg" I just get many lines of "help" which is too complicated to understand.

Thanks.

Edit: since writing the above I have found that the online service https://www.onlineocr.net/ works perfectly. So problem solved.

OCR https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all&...en&q=ocr+linux
Language specific packages https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...searchon=names

Thanks for the update and solution.

If you read my posting above, you can see I've already got Tesseract installed.

The Google search link provided by knudfl does however pull out a webpage that does give useful suggestions for programs and also gives some essential details about Tesseract - it only works with tiff files.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1626...t-ocr-solution

"To run tesseract goto terminal and type the following

tesseract imagefile.tif outputfile.txt

Tesseract can only read a TIFF file - if you've got a JPEG or PDF or whatever, you'll have to convert it. Also, the filename extension must be .tif, not .tiff, otherwise tesseract errors out."

I have already solved my OCR problem but other might find this useful. There appear to be many other OCR programs apart from Tesseract - no idea which one is best.

I think I used ocrodjvu when I last did OCR. It seems to be a wrapper for all the main ones like Cuneiform, Gocr, Ocrad, OCRopus, and Tesseract.

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