#!/bin/bash
# xsane2ocrad - ocr with ocrad directly from xsane
# Copyright (C) 2012 Heinrich Schwietering
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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#
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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#
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# along with this program. If not, see .
#
################################################################################
# #
# xsane2ocrad 0.1 #
# #
# *** ocrad made simple *** #
# #
################################################################################
#
# xane2ocrad is a wrapper to use Ocrad with XSane
#
#
#
TEMP_DIR=/tmp/ # folder for temporary files
ERRORLOG="xsane2ocrad.log" # file where STDERR goes
if [[ -z "$1" ]]
then
echo "Usage: $0 [OPTIONS]
xsane2ocrad scans image files with XSane,
recognizes the text using ocrad
and outputs the text in a file.
OPTIONS:
-i define input file (any image-format supported)
-o define output file (txt, html, hocr, rtf)
-e optional, all ocrad-Options, use quotes
Progress- & error-messages will be stored in this logfile:
$TEMP_DIR$ERRORLOG
xsane2ocrad depends on
- XSane, http://www.xsane.org/
- ocrad, http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/
Some coding was stolen from 'ocube'
http://www.geocities.com/thierryguy/ocube.html
This ocrad adaption is based on xsane2tess
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/xsane2tess,
Hints always welcome! heinrich (dot) schwietering (at) gmx (dot) de
"
exit
fi
# get options...
while getopts ":i:o:e:" OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
i ) # input filename (with path)
FILE_PATH="$OPTARG"
;;
o ) # output filename
FILE_OUT="$OPTARG"
;;
e ) # extra options
EXTRA="$OPTARG"
;;
esac
done
# redirect STDERR to ERRORLOG
exec 2>>$TEMP_DIR$ERRORLOG
echo "~~~+++~~~~+++~~~" 1>&2
ocrad "$FILE_PATH" -o "$FILE_OUT" $EXTRA 1>&2
echo "ocrad "$FILE_PATH" -o "$FILE_OUT" $EXTRA ausgeführt" 1>&2
echo "~~~+++~~~~+++~~~"$(date +%c) 1>&2