WORDLIST2DAWG(1)

💅 WORDLIST2DAWG(1) 💅

ok so bestie, welcome to wordlist2dawg — the manual page. yes that's the manual name, and yes it's a mouthful, but trust me, she's iconic. this little tool converts a wordlist into a DAWG for Tesseract, and we're gonna get into it. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's every single way you can run her, no cap:

wordlist2dawg WORDLIST DAWG lang.unicharset

wordlist2dawg -t WORDLIST DAWG lang.unicharset

wordlist2dawg -r 1 WORDLIST DAWG lang.unicharset

wordlist2dawg -r 2 WORDLIST DAWG lang.unicharset

wordlist2dawg -l <short> <long> WORDLIST DAWG lang.unicharset

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so wordlist2dawg(1) does exactly what it says on the tin: it converts a wordlist into a Directed Acyclic Word Graph — a DAWG, for the uninitiated 💅 — for use with Tesseract. and what even is a DAWG? it's a compressed, space and time efficient representation of a word list. literally the glow-up your wordlist didn't know it needed. ✨

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -t — verify that a given dawg file is equivalent to a given wordlist. vibe check for your dawg 🔍
• -r 1 — reverse a word if it contains an RTL character. only the RTL girlies get flipped 🙃
• -r 2 — reverse all words. everybody gets flipped, periodt 💀
• -l <short> <long> — produce a file with several dawgs in it, one each for words of length <short>, <short+1>,... <long>. a whole little dawg family 🐶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• WORDLIST — a plain text file in UTF-8, one word per line. keep it clean, bestie, one word per line, that's the whole assignment 📝
• DAWG — the output DAWG to write. this is where she goes 🫶
• lang.unicharset — the unicharset of the language. this is the unicharset generated by mftraining(1). yes, that one. don't @ me, just use the one mftraining(1) gave you 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go check out her friends, they're all slaying in their own lanes:

• tesseract(1)
• combine_tessdata(1)
• dawg2wordlist(1)

and the docs, for the lore drop: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html 🌈

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🌟 COPYING 🌟

Copyright (C) 2006 Google, Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

like, legal stuff, but make it fashion 💅

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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 legends, we stan 👑✨

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ok that's the whole page bestie, no gatekeeping here 💖

and that's a wrap! this page is dated 2026-09-28 and it's the wordlist2dawg(1) page — go build something iconic with it, mwah 😘💅🍓