ocrfeeder-cli(1)

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💖 ocrfeeder-cli — the girlies' guide 💖

ok so this is the manual page for ocrfeeder-cli, living in the General Commands Manual section, and bestie... it's literally the command line interface for OCRFeeder, which is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system. yes. that whole mouthful. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ocrfeeder-cli — command line interface for OCRFeeder, a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

like. it looks at your documents and understands them. main character energy fr. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ocrfeeder-cli [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options only, no positional args, periodt. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This manual page documents briefly the ocrfeeder-cli command.

OCRFeeder — given the images, it will automatically outline its contents, distinguish between what's graphics and text and perform OCR over the latter. It generates multiple formats, being its main one ODT. 💖

so like, you feed it pictures of pages, and it goes okay let me figure out what here is a picture and what here is actual words, does the OCR thing on the words, and hands you back a document. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

💫 Generic program information

  • --version — shows the program version number and then dips. exit stage left. 👋
  • -h, --help — shows the help message and exits. your little safety net, bestie. 🫶

🔥 Required options

  • -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output=OUTPUT_FILE — the name for the generated file. yeah you have to give it one, no skipping, no cap. 😭

🌟 Other options

  • -i IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...], --images=IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...] — the images to be recognized. give it one, give it many, she's flexible. 🎀
  • -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT — format for the generated document: PDF, HTML, ODT, TXT or SPDF (searchable PDF). five options, all valid, pick your fighter. 💅
  • -e ENGINE, --engine=ENGINE — the OCR engine to be used. options are: GOCR or Ocrad. just those two, okay? don't get creative. 🙈
  • -l LANGUAGE, --language=LANGUAGE — the language according to the ISO-639-1. for example "pt" for Portuguese or "en" for English. iykyk. 🌍
  • --window-size=WINDOW_SIZE — desired window size of OCRFeeder's segmentation algorithm. if this option is not used, the window size will be calculated automatically. so like, only touch this if you have opinions. ✨

🦋 FOLDERS 🦋

  • ~/.config/ocrfeeder/engines/ — folder to hold the engines' configuration files. yes it's a hidden folder. yes it's cute. 💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

ocrfeeder(1)

go read that one too, bestie, it's the whole GUI situation. 🍓

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manpage has been written by Joaquim Rocha <me@joaquimrocha.com> and Alberto Garcia <agarcia@igalia.com>.

absolute legends, fr fr. thank you for your service. 🎀

just a lil reminder bestie: if you don't pass -o, this whole thing is not going anywhere, so don't forget your output file. no cap. 💖

and that's the whole page, babes ✨ — this one's from the General Commands Manual, dated 2016-02-05, and it's still serving looks. slay, stay safe, and OCR responsibly 💅🌈

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