NAME

       cuneiform - multi-language OCR system

SYNOPSIS

       cuneiform [--dotmatrix] [--fax] [--singlecolumn] [-f format] [-l language] [-o output] input

DESCRIPTION

       Cuneiform  is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format
       recognition. Cuneiform supports several languages.

OPTIONS

       --dotmatrix
           Use recognition mode optimized for text printed with a dot matrix printer.

       --fax
           Use recognition mode optimized for text that has been faxed.

       --singlecolumn
           Disable page layout analysis and assumes that the image consists of only one column of text.

       -f format
           Select output format. The following formats are  available:  html  (HTML  format),  hocr  (hOCR  HTML
           format),  native  (native  Cuneiform  2000),  rtf  (RTF  format),  smarttext  (plain  text  with  TeX
           paragraphs), text (plain text).  The default is plain text.

       -l language
           By default Cuneiform recognizes English text. To change the language use the command line  switch  -l
           followed  by  a language code (typically an ISO 639-2 three-letter code). The following languages are
           supported:
           bul      Bulgarian
           cze      Czech
           dan      Danish
           dut      Dutch
           eng      English
           est      Estonian
           fra      French
           ger      German
           hrv      Croatian
           hun      Hungarian
           ita      Italian
           lav      Latvian
           lit      Lithuanian
           pol      Polish
           por      Portuguese
           rum      Romanian
           rus      Russian
           ruseng   mixed Russian/English
           slv      Slovenian
           spa      Spanish
           srp      Serbian
           swe      Swedish
           tur      Turkish
           ukr      Ukrainian

       -o output
           If you do not define an output file with the -o  switch,  Cuneiform  writes  the  result  to  a  file
           ‘cuneiform-out.format’. The file extension depends on your output format.

INPUT FORMAT

       Cuneiform  can  process  any  single-page image that GraphicsMagick knows how to open. Please consult the
       gm(1) manual page for the comprehensive list of supported image formats.

HOMEPAGE

       More information about cuneiform can be found at <http://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/>.

AUTHOR

       cuneiform was written by Cognitive Technologies and Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project  (but  may  be
       used by others).

1.0.0                                              2010-09-14                                       CUNEIFORM(1)