[SOLVED] Redirecting output to console

fanoflq · 10-12-2016, 06:21 AM

Code:

tesseract imagename|stdin outputbase|stdout [options...] [configfile...

# this works. output is sent to outputfilename.txt
>tesseract imagename outputfilename

But how to send output to console?
Thank you.

BW-userx · 10-12-2016, 06:59 AM

some how finagle it to send it to a tty (address)

allend · 10-12-2016, 07:06 AM

You are misreading the 'man' page for tesseract.
The tesseract program can take input from either a file (imagename) or standard input (stdin), and,
send output to a file (outputbase) or your console also called standard output (stdout).
There is also a facility to optionally supply further options and/or a configuration file.

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But how to send output to console?

As shown here (note the proviso on the version of tesseract), you use:

Code:

tesseract <your input file name> stdout

fanoflq · 10-12-2016, 07:57 AM

Thank you.

I thought I tried

Code:

tesseract <your input file name> stdout

and it did not worked.
now it works..... strange...
I probably made a mistake somewhere... :-(

fanoflq · 10-12-2016, 08:01 AM

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The tesseract program can take input from either a file (imagename) or standard input (stdin), and, .....

How do you enable tesseract to take a stdin (console) when
it is an ocr engine and needs an image like so:

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tesseract <your input file name> stdout

allend · 10-12-2016, 08:28 AM

Consider a construction like

Code:

cat <your input file name> | tesseract stdin stdout

which might be useful in a script.