Provided by: ocrodjvu_0.9.1-1_all
NAME
ocrodjvu - OCR for DjVu files
SYNOPSIS
ocrodjvu {-o | --save-bundled} output-djvu-file [option...] djvu-file ocrodjvu {-i | --save-indirect} index-djvu-file [option...] djvu-file ocrodjvu --save-script script-file [option...] djvu-file ocrodjvu --in-place [option...] djvu-file ocrodjvu --dry-run [option...] djvu-file ocrodjvu {--version | --help | -h | --list-engines | --list-languages}
DESCRIPTION
ocrodjvu is a wrapper for OCR systems that allows you to perform OCR on DjVu files. The following OCR engines are supported: • OCRopus[1] (internally, ocrodjvu calls ocroscript's recognize (or rec-tess) command, so that ultimately Tesseract acts as the OCR backend); • Cuneiform for Linux[2]. • Ocrad[3]. • GOCR[4]. • Stand-alone Tesseract[5].
OPTIONS
OCR engine options -e, --engine=engine-id Use this OCR engine. The default is “tesseract”. (The default was “ocropus” prior to ocrodjvu 0.8.) --list-engines Print list of available OCR engines. Options controlling output -o, --save-bundled=output-djvu-file Save OCR results as a bundled multi-page document into output-djvu-file. -i, --save-indirect=index-djvu-file Save OCR results as an indirect multi-page document. Use index-djvu-file as the index file name; put the component files into the same directory. The directory must exist and be writable. --save-script=script-file Save a djvused script with OCR results into script-file. --in-place Save OCR results in place. (Use this option to retain compatibility with ocrodjvu < 0.2.) --dry-run Don't change any files, throw OCR results away. It is mandatory to use exactly one of the above options. --ocr-only If OCR results are to be saved to a separate document (-o/--save-bundled or -i/--save-indirect), save only the pages selected for OCR. The default is to save all pages, even when the -p/--pages option is in effect. --clear-text Remove existing hidden text if present in the pages not selected for OCR. (Use this option to retain compatibility with ocrodjvu < 0.2.) --save-raw-ocr=output-directory Save raw OCR results (typically in the hOCR format) into output-directory. The directory must exist and be writable. --raw-ocr-filename-template=template Specifies the file naming scheme for raw OCR results. The template language uses the Python string formatting syntax[6]. The following fields are available: page, page+N, page-N page number, optionally shifted by a number N id page identifier id-ext page identifier without file extension The default template is “{id-ext}”. Text segmentation options -t lines, --details lines Record location of every line. Don't record locations of particular words or characters. This is the default for OCRopus 0.2. The option is ineffective with stand-alone Tesseract 2.0. -t words, --details=words Record location of every line and every word. Don't record locations of particular characters. This is the default for most OCR engines. This option is ineffective with OCRopus 0.2 and stand-alone Tesseract 2.0. -t chars, --details=chars Record location of every line, every word and every character. This option is ineffective with OCRopus 0.2 and stand-alone Tesseract 2.0. --word-segmentation=simple Consider each non-empty sequence of non-whitespace characters a single word. This is the default, despite being linguistically incorrect. --word-segmentation=uax29 Use the Unicode Text Segmentation[7] algorithm to break lines into words. This option breaks assumptions of some DjVu tools that words are separated by spaces, and therefore it is not recommended. Other options -l, --language=language-id Set recognition language. language-id is typically an ISO 639-2/T three-letter code. Tesseract ≥ 3.02 allows specifying multiple languages separated by “+” characters. For OCRopus, the default is “eng” (English), unless the tesslanguage environment variable is set. For other OCR engines, the default is always “eng”. --list-languages Print list of available languages for the currently selected OCR engine. --render=mask Render only masks of page images. This is the default. --render=foreground Render only foreground layers of page images. --render=all Render all layers of page images. This option is necessary to OCR DjVu files with invalid foreground/background separation. -p, --pages=page-range Specifies pages to process. page-range is a comma-separated list of sub-ranges. Each sub-range is either a single page (e.g. 17) or a contiguous range of pages (e.g. 37-42). Pages are numbered from 1. The default is to process all pages. -j, --jobs=n Start up to n OCR processes. --version Output version information and exit. -h, --help Display help and exit. Advanced options -D, --debug To ease debugging, don't delete intermediate files. -X key=value This option allows controlling some details of how ocrodjvu operates. --on-error=abort Stop program execution when an exceptional situation (e.g., malformed output from the OCR engine, internal ocrodjvu error, etc.) occurs. This is the default. --on-error=resume Attempt to recover from exceptional situations. This option is strongly discouraged. --html5 Use a HTML5 parser[8], which is more robust but slower than the default parser.
EXIT STATUS
One of the following exit values can be returned by ocrodjvu: 0 The program finished successfully. 1 A fatal error occurred. 2 The program recovered from an error (--on-error=resume).
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affects ocrodjvu: tesslanguage Recognition language for Tesseract. (Use this variable is deprecated in favor of the --language option.) TMPDIR ocrodjvu makes heavy use of temporary files. It will store them in a directory specified by this variable. The default is /tmp.
BUGS
Known bugs Tesseract 3.00 is affected by a bug [9] making it produce invalid hOCR output in certain circumstances. ocrodjvu does not try recover form this fault (which couldn't be done reliably anyway) unless you pass the -X fix-html=1 option. When using Tesseract ≥ 3.00, extracting bounding boxes of particular characters (which happens when either --details=chars or --word-segmentation=uax29) is inefficient. This is due to limitations of the Tesseract command-line interface. Reporting new bugs Please report bugs at: https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/ocrodjvu/issues
SEE ALSO
djvu(1), djvu2hocr(1), hocr2djvused(1), ocroscript(1), tesseract(1), cuneiform(1), ocrad(1), gocr(1)
NOTES
1. OCRopus https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ 2. Cuneiform for Linux https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux 3. Ocrad https://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ 4. GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ 5. Tesseract https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ 6. Python string formatting syntax https://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-string-syntax 7. Unicode Text Segmentation http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/ 8. HTML5 parser http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#html-parser 9. https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=376