---
name: "ambiguous_words"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tesseract-ocr"
version: "5.5.0-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ambiguous_words"
---

# ambiguous\_words(1)

generate sets of words Tesseract is likely to find ambiguous

## NAME

ambiguous\_words - generate sets of words Tesseract is likely to find ambiguous

## SYNOPSIS

**ambiguous\_words** \[-l lang\] *TESSDATADIR* *WORDLIST* *AMBIGUOUSFILE*

## DESCRIPTION

[ambiguous\_words(1)](/ambiguous_words/1.md) runs Tesseract in a special mode, and for each word in word list, produces a set of words which Tesseract thinks might be ambiguous with it. *TESSDATADIR* must be set to the absolute path of a directory containing *tessdata/lang.traineddata*.

## SEE ALSO

[tesseract(1)](/tesseract/1.md)

## COPYING

Copyright (C) 2012 Google, Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

## AUTHOR

The Tesseract OCR engine was written by Ray Smith and his research groups at Hewlett Packard (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).