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Thursday,January9,2014

OCRScanning
Thispostdescribeshowtoscanpagesfromaprintedbookandconverttheimagetotextusing
OpticalCharacterRecognition(OCR)technology.
ThetoolsthatIuseare:
1. SimpleScan
2. tesseract
Preparation
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SimpleScanisaGUIscanapplicationthatcomespreinstalledinmanyLinuxdistributions
(includingDebianWheezy).
TomanuallyinstallitonDebian:
$ sudo apt-get install simple-scan
tesseractisacommandlineOCRprogram.
Toinstall:
$ sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
IfEnglishisthelanguageused,thatisallyouneedtoinstall.Ifyourequireanotherlanguage,you
mustinstalladditionaltesseractlanguagepacks.ExamplesaretesseractocrrusforRussian,
tesseractocrdeuforGerman,andtesseractocrfraforFrench.
OCRProcedure

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3. Runthetesseractcommand:
$ tesseract OnWritingWell.jpg out
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica
Thefirstparameteristheinputimagefilename.Thesecondparameteristhedesired
basenameoftheoutputtextfile.Thedefaulttxtextensionisaddedtothebasename,e.g.,
out.txt.
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IfthelanguageisnotEnglish,youneedtospecifythelanguageonthecommandlineusing
a3characterlanguagecode(refertothetesseractmanpage).Thefollowingcommand
specifiestheuseof3languages:Russian,GermanandFrench.
$ tesseract OnWritingWell.jpg myout -l rus+deu+fra

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Accuracy

Intheaboveexample,therewereatotalof734words.Withintheoutputtextfile,119words(16%
oftotal)requiresomeformofmanualcorrection.Thisroughlytranslatesto84%OCRaccuracy.
Thesamplesizeistoosmalltobescientific,orstatisticallyvalid.Whatistheperformancethat
youaregettingfromOCR?
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