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Posted: **Fri May 31, 2013 12:08 am**

I thought I'd throw a quick HOWTO for converting a page of a book into text -Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Take a photo of your page:

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raspistill -o page.jpg

Convert it to text (OCR):

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tesseract page.jpg pagetext

This can take the Pi anything from 1 to 10 minutes depending on the image...

Then you have a text file called pagetext.txt

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cat pagetext.txt

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2013 10:58 am**

OCR is one of the few things where linux is a decade behind professional solutions on Windows computers (one of the very few reasons why I'm still using them). tesseract is working in a way, but at least for my demands not really usable.

Posted: **Tue May 13, 2014 3:09 am**

hi just a question can I use "tesseract" from c++ as well ?

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:33 am**

When I use these commands, I get some random characters instead. How can I fix this?

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