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CLI OCR Documentation
- The documentation is also installed locally with the CLI-tool.
How to use the CLI OCR
The command line interface of the ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux is represented by the abbyyocr9 executable.
Compatibility Note: V8 is 'abbyyocr'
abbyyocr [open image and analysis options] -if <image file> [export options] -of <export file>
abbyyocr [options] -if file1 [options] -if file2... -of destination
abbyyocr [options] -if file -f format1 [options] -of file1 -f format2 [options] -of file2...
Samples
There are different samples of using the abbyyocr9 utility.
abbyyocr9 -ii -fm -if sample.jpg -tet UTF8 -of sample.txt
- The sample.jpg file will be recognised in fast mode (-fm).
- The colors of the prepared image will be inverted during conversion to the internal format (-ii).
- The results will be exported into text file of the Unicode UTF8 type (-tet UTF8).
abbyyocr9 -if sample1.jpg -rl English German -if sample2.jpg -f PDF -of sample2.pdf
- The sample1.jpg and sample2.jpg files will be recognised and exported to a PDF file (-f PDF).
- The sample2.jpg will be recognised with the English and German predefined languages (-rl English German).
abbyyocr9 -if sample.jpg -f HTML -hkl -of sample.html -f RTF -rmp -of sample.rtf
- The sample.jpg file will be recognised and the results will be exported to HTML (-f HTML) and RTF formats (-f RTF).
- The original lines in the recognised text will be retained during export to HTML format (-hkl).
- The source page layout will not be retained when exporting recognised text to RTF format (-rmp).
abbyyocr9 -ipn 2 -adb -if sample.tif -f PDF -pem TextOnly -prl -of sample.pdf
- The third page of the sample.tif file will be recognised (-ipn 2).
- Barcodes will be detected and barcode blocks will be created during page layout analysis (-adb).
- The recognised text and hyperlinks will be exported to a PDF file (-f PDF) as text (-pem TextOnly -prl).
Parameter Overview
The abbyyocr utility supports the following keys:
