NAME

ocrfeeder-cli - command line interface for OCRFeeder, a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

SYNOPSIS

ocrfeeder-cli [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the ocrfeeder-cli command.

OCRFeeder Given the images it will automatically outline its contents, distinguish between what's graphics and text and perform OCR over the latter. It generates multiple formats being its main one ODT.

OPTIONS

Generic program information

--version: Show program version number and exit
-h, --help: Show help message and exit

Required options

-o OUTPUT_FILE, --output=OUTPUT_FILE: Name for the generated file

Other options

-i IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...], --images=IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...]: Images to be recognized
-f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT: Format for the generated document: PDF, HTML, ODT, TXT or SPDF (searchable PDF)
-e ENGINE, --engine=ENGINE: The OCR engine to be used. Options are: GOCR or Ocrad
-l LANGUAGE, --language=LANGUAGE: The language according to the ISO-639-1. For example "pt" for Portuguese or "en" for English
--window-size=WINDOW_SIZE: Desired window size of OCRFeeder's segmentation algorithm. If this option is not used, the window size will be calculated automatically

FOLDERS

~/.config/ocrfeeder/engines/: Folder to hold the engines' configuration files

AUTHOR

This manpage has been written by Joaquim Rocha <me@joaquimrocha.com> and Alberto Garcia <agarcia@igalia.com>

2016-02-05