This repository is a tutorial for using the Tesseract software. It is a simple Shell script. You can run it simply over any of your directories. Before you start, please note, that a config.jsonis necessary to
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launch the script.
In the following I'll explain which properties you have to determine.
| Argument | config.json Attribute | Description |
|---|---|---|
| results | resultFiles | directory of the image folder |
| createTXT | createTXT | trueor false whether a .txt will be created or not |
| createPDF | createPDF | trueor false whether a searchable .pdf will be created or not |
| deleteIMG | deleteIMG | trueor false whether you want to delete the orig. image or not |
dir="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
predictions=`jq '.predictionFiles' config.json | xargs -n 1`
results=`jq '.resultFiles' config.json | xargs -n 1`
createTXT=`jq '.createTXT' config.json | xargs -n 1`
createPDF=`jq '.createPDF' config.json | xargs -n 1`
deleteIMG=`jq '.deleteIMG' config.json | xargs -n 1`After all insert the directory with the images to be recognized into the results-attribute in the config.json-file and run the script with the following command:
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