Difference between revisions of "Cuneiform"

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CuneiForm is an OCR tool. It was originally developed at [http://en.openocr.org/ Cognitive Technologies] and, after a few years with no development, released as freeware on December 12, 2007. The kernel of OCR engine was released under the open source BSD license license at the beginning of April 2008.
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#REDIRECT [[Third-party software integration: OCR Cuneiform]]
 
 
You can grab binaries from these sites:
 
 
 
* http://en.openocr.org
 
* http://pkgs.org/package/cuneiform
 
* http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/c/cuneiform
 
 
 
If you are using a computer with Debian / Ubuntu, the installation simplifies a lot:
 
 
 
  $ aptitude install cuneiform
 
 
 
== Compile from source code ==
 
You can download the source code from http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ and compile yourself. Also download the language files you need and uncompress them in the same folder of the application.
 
 
 
$ aptitude install cmake g++ imagemagick libmagick++-dev
 
$ tar xjvf cuneiform-linux-1.0.0.tar.bz2
 
$ cd cuneiform-linux-1.0.0
 
$ mkdir builddir
 
$ cd builddir
 
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ..
 
$ make install
 
 
 
Once installed, edit the file '''/etc/bash.bashrc''' and add at the end:
 
 
 
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib64
 
 
 
[[Category: Installation Guide]]
 

Latest revision as of 11:14, 11 January 2012