Reference

ocr4gamera(1)

OCR system using the Gamera framework

NAME

ocr4gamera - OCR system using the Gamera framework

USAGE

ocr4gamera -x <traindata> [options] <imagefile>

OPTIONS

-v <int>, --verbosity=<int>

Set verbosity level to <int>. Possible values are 0 (default): silent operation; 1: information on progress; >2: segmentation info is written to PNG files with prefix debug_.

-h, --help

Display help and exit.

--version

Print version and exit.

-d, --deskew

Do a skew correction (recommended).

-mf <ws>, --median_filter=<ws>

Smooth the input image with a median filter with window size <ws>. Default is <ws>=0, which means no smoothing

-ds <s>, --despeckle=<s>

Remove all speckle with size <= <s>. Default is <s> = 0, which means no despeckling.

-f, --filter

Filter out very large (images) and very small components (noise).

-a, --automatic-group

Autogroup glyphs with classifier.

-x <file>, --xmlfile=<file>

Read training data from <file>.

-o <xml>, --output=<xml>

Write recognized text to file <xml> (otherwise it is written to stdout).

-od <dir>, --output_directory=<dir>

Writes for each input image <img> the recognized text to <dir>/<img>.txt. Note that this option cannot be used in combination with -o (--outfile).

-c <csv>, --extra_chars_csvfile=<csv>

Read additional class name conversions from file <csv>. <csv> must contain one conversion per line.

-R <rules>, --heuristic_rules=<rules>

Apply heuristic rules <rules> for disambiguation of some chars. <rules> can be roman (default) or none (for no rules).

-D, --dictionary-correction

Correct words using a dictionary (requires aspell or ispell).

-L <lang>, --dictionary-language=<lang>

Use <lang> as language for aspell (when option -D is set).

-e <int>, --edit-distance=<int>

Correct words only when edit distance not more than <int>.

-ho, --hocr_out

Writes output as hocr file (only works with the -o option).

-hi <hocrfile>, --hocr_in=<hocrfile>

Uses an hocr input file for textline segmentation.

History

--despeckle since Debian 9 (Stretch); --hocr_in since Debian 9 (Stretch); --hocr_out since Debian 9 (Stretch); --median_filter since Debian 9 (Stretch); --output_directory since Debian 9 (Stretch); --version since Debian 9 (Stretch); -ds since Debian 9 (Stretch); -hi since Debian 9 (Stretch); -mf since Debian 9 (Stretch); -od since Debian 9 (Stretch).