Debian Accessibility Optical Character Recognition (OCR) packages

This package provides a command-line e-reader that reads out electronic text using speech synthesis. It has a simple user interface appropriate for Braille terminals.

Currently the following formats are supported (some formats need additional packages as suggested by this package):

 AportisDoc
 ASCII mail text
 ASCII text
 Broadband eBooks (BBeB)
 Composite Document File (Microsoft Office Word)
 DAISY3 DTBook
 EPUB ebook data
 GIF image data
 GutenPalm zTXT
 GNU gettext message catalogue
 HTML document
 ISO-8859 text
 JPEG image data
 Microsoft Reader eBook Data
 Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Microsoft Word 2007+
 Mobipocket E-book
 MS Windows HtmlHelp Data
 Netpbm PPM data
 OpenDocument Text
 PDF document
 PeanutPress PalmOS
 PNG image data
 POSIX shell script text
 PostScript document
 Rich Text Format
 troff or preprocessor text (e.g. Linux man-pages)
 UTF-8 Unicode mail text
 UTF-8 Unicode text
 WordPerfect
 XML document text

This is a multi-platform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

It can read pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, some pcx and tga image files.

Currently the program should be able to handle well scans that have their text in one column and do not have tables. Font sizes of 20 to 60 pixels are supported.

If you want to write your own OCR, libgocr is provided in a separate package. Documentation and graphical wrapper are provided in separated packages, too.

Lios provides a graphical interface on top of the Cuneiform and Tesseract OCR backends to make OCR processing easier for impaired users, with full autorotation, brightness optimization, rectangle selection, audio feedback, etc.

Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the command line tool.

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

The following languages are supported: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.