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NAME
       gocr - command line text recognition tool

SYNOPSIS
       gocr [OPTION] [-i] pnm-file

DESCRIPTION
       gocr  is an optical character recognition program that can be used from
       the command line.  It takes input in PNM, PGM, PBM, PPM, or PCX format,
       and  writes  recognized  text  to  stdout.  If the pnm file is a single
       dash, PNM data is read from stdin.  If gzip, bzip2 and netpbm-progs are
       installed  and your system supports popen(3) also pnm.gz, pnm.bz2, png,
       jpg, jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, ps (only single pages) and eps are supported
       as  input files (not as input stream), where pnm can be replaced by one
       of ppm, pgm and pbm.

OPTIONS
       -h     show usage information

       -i file
              read input from file (or stdin if file is a single dash)

       -o file
              send output to file instead of stdout

       -e file
              send errors to file instead of stderr or to stdout if file is  a
              dash

       -x file
              progress output to file (file can be a file name, a fifo name or
              a file descriptor 1...255), this is useful for  GUI  developpers
              to  show  the OCR progress, the file descriptor argument is only
              available, if compiled with __USE_POSIX defined

       -p path
              database path, a final slash must be included, default is ./db/,
              this path will be populated with images of learned characters

       -f format
              output  format  of  the  recognized text (ISO8859_1 TeX HTML XML
              UTF8 ASCII), XML will also output position and probability data

       -l level
              set grey level to level (0<160<=255, default: 0 for autodetect),
              darker  pixels  belong to characters, brighter pixels are inter-
              preted as background of the input image

       -d size
              set  dust  size  in  pixels  (clusters  smaller  than  this  are
              removed), 0 means no clusters are removed, the default is -1 for
              auto detection

       -s num set spacewidth between words in units of dots  (default:  0  for



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              autodetect),  wider  widths  are  interpreted  as  word  spaces,
              smaller as character spaces

       -v verbosity
              be verbose to stderr; verbosity is a bitfield

       -c string
              only verbose output of characters from string  to  stderr,  more
              output  is  generated  for all characters within the string, the
              underscore stands for unknown chars, this function is usefull to
              limit debug information to the necessary one

       -C string
              only recognise characters from string, this is a filter function
              in cases where the interest is only to a part of  the  character
              alphabet,  you  can  use 0-9 or a-z to specify ranges, use -- to
              detect the minus sign

       -a certainty
              set value for certainty of recognition  (0..100;  default:  95),
              characters with a higher certainty are accepted, characters with
              a lower certainty are treated as unknown (not  recognized);  set
              higher  values, if you want to have only more certain recognized
              characters

       -u string
              output this string for every unrecognized character (default  is
              "_")

       -m mode
              set oprational mode; mode is a bitfield (default: 0)

       -n bool
              if  bool  is non-zero, only recognise numbers (this is now obso-
              lete, use -C "0123456789")

       The verbosity is specified as a bitfield:

       1         print more info

       2         list shapes of boxes (see -c) to stderr

       4         list pattern of boxes (see -c) to stderr

       8         print pattern after recognition for debugging

       16        print debug information about recognition of lines to stderr

       32        create outXX.png with boxes and lines marked on each  general
                 OCR-step

       The operation modes are:

       2         use database to recognize characters which are not recognized



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                 by other algorithms, (early development)

       4         switching on layout analysis or zoning (development)

       8         don't compare unrecognized characters to recognized one

       16        don't try to divide overlapping characters to  two  or  three
                 single characters

       32        don't do context correction

       64        character packing, before recognition starts, similar charac-
                 ters are searched and only one of  this  characters  will  be
                 send to the recognition engine (development)

       130       extend database, prompts user for unidentified characters and
                 extends the database with users answer (128+2, early develop-
                 ment)

       256       switch  off the recognition engine (makes sense together with
                 -m 2)


AUTHOR
       Joerg Schulenburg (see http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ for EMAIL)
       First version of man page by Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

VERSION INFORMATION
       This man page documents gocr, version 0.41.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to Joerg Schulenburg

SEE ALSO
       More details can be found at /usr/local/share/doc/gocr/gocr.html.  Also
       read /usr/local/share/doc/gocr/README to learn, how to improve results.

EXAMPLES
       gocr -v 33 text1.pbm
              output verbose information, out30.png is created to see  details
              of recognition process

       gocr -v 7 -c _YV text1.pbm
              verbose output for unknown chars and chars Y and V

       djpeg -pnm -gray text.jpg | gocr -
              convert a jpeg file to pnm format and input via pipe










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