DAWG2WORDLIST(1)

💅 dawg2wordlist(1) — bestie's guide to the DAWG-to-wordlist pipeline 🐕

okay so picture this: you've got a Tesseract DAWG (a Directed Acyclic Word Graph, yes that's a real thing, it's giving very fancy graph energy) and you need actual words out of it. that's literally this whole tool. dawg2wordlist is the manual page, and it's here to turn your graph back into a wordlist, using a unicharset as the key. no cap, that's it, that's the job 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dawg2wordlist UNICHARSET DAWG WORDLIST

three little arguments, in this exact order, don't freestyle it 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

dawg2wordlist(1) converts a Tesseract Directed Acyclic Word Graph (DAWG) into a list of words, and it uses a unicharset as the key to do it. so you hand it a unicharset, you hand it a DAWG, and it hands you back words. iconic behaviour, honestly 🌈

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• UNICHARSET — the unicharset of the language, bestie. this is the one generated by mftraining(1), so don't go grabbing a random one, iykyk 🦋
• DAWG — the input DAWG. it's the one created by wordlist2dawg(1), so yes, that's the tool that made it and this is the tool that un-makes it 💀
• WORDLIST — plain text (output) file in UTF-8, one word per line. literally just words, one per line, UTF-8, no drama, periodt ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• tesseract(1)
• mftraining(1)
• wordlist2dawg(1)
• unicharset(5)
• combine_tessdata(1)
• https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html

go read those if you want the full lore, fr fr 📚

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💖 COPYING 💖

Copyright (C) 2012 Google, Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

like, legally we have to say that, and also we respect the paperwork 🫡

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

The Tesseract OCR engine was written by Ray Smith and his research groups at Hewlett Packard (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).

absolute main character energy, we stan a decades-long research arc 👑

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and that's the page, bestie 🎀 this little gem is dated 2026-09-28 and it's from DAWG2WORDLIST(1) — go forth and convert those DAWGs 💜