CUNEIFORM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

cuneiform — a whole multi-language OCR system, bestie 💖 (it lives in section 1 of the manual, iykyk)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cuneiform [--dotmatrix] [--fax] [--singlecolumn] [-f format] [-l language] [-o output] input

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, Cuneiform is an OCR system. And not just any OCR system — it does text recognition, but it also does layout analysis AND text format recognition on top of that. Main character energy fr fr. 👑

And the way it supports several languages?? Obsessed. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --dotmatrix — turns on the recognition mode that's optimized for text printed with a dot matrix printer. yes, the crunchy retro printer vibe 🖨️
• --fax — turns on the recognition mode optimized for text that has been faxed. for all your faxed-document needs, no cap 📠
• --singlecolumn — disables page layout analysis and just assumes the image is one single column of text. lowkey a shortcut when your page isn't doing anything fancy
• -f format — picks your output format. here's the menu:
  • html — HTML format
  • hocr — hOCR HTML format
  • native — native Cuneiform 2000
  • rtf — RTF format
  • smarttext — plain text with TeX paragraphs
  • text — plain text

and the default? plain text. text. that's the vibe unless you say otherwise 💖

• -l language — by default Cuneiform recognizes English text, bestie. to switch it up, use the command line switch -l followed by a language code (typically an ISO 639-2 three-letter code). here's every language it supports:
  • bul — Bulgarian
  • cze — Czech
  • dan — Danish
  • dut — Dutch
  • eng — English
  • est — Estonian
  • fra — French
  • ger — German
  • hrv — Croatian
  • hun — Hungarian
  • ita — Italian
  • lav — Latvian
  • lit — Lithuanian
  • pol — Polish
  • por — Portuguese
  • rum — Romanian
  • rus — Russian
  • ruseng — mixed Russian/English
  • slv — Slovenian
  • spa — Spanish
  • srp — Serbian
  • swe — Swedish
  • tur — Turkish
  • ukr — Ukrainian

like, twenty-three whole languages plus the mixed one. she's multilingual and she ate 💅✨

• -o output — if you don't define an output file with the -o switch, Cuneiform writes the result to a file called cuneiform-out.format. and yes, the file extension depends on your output format 🎀

🎀 INPUT FORMAT 🎀

Cuneiform can process any single-page image that GraphicsMagick knows how to open. so like, if gm can open it, we're good 🫶

please consult the gm(1) manual page for the comprehensive list of supported image formats — she has the receipts, go ask her.

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

more info about cuneiform can be found at <http://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/> ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

cuneiform was written by Cognitive Technologies and Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>.

this manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous of him honestly 💖

ok that's the whole page, thanks for coming to my TED talk 🫶 this was cuneiform version 1.0.0, dated 2010-09-14 — yeah she's vintage, and vintage is iconic, periodt 💀✨