CUNEIFORM(1)

NAME
cuneiform - multi-language OCR system

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

DESCRIPTION
Cuneiform is an OCR system. In addition to text recognition it also does layout analysis and text format recognition. Cuneiform supports several languages.

OPTIONS

--dotmatrix
    Use recognition mode optimized for text printed with a dot matrix printer.

--fax
    Use recognition mode optimized for text that has been faxed.

--singlecolumn
    Disable page layout analysis and assumes that the image consists of only one column of text.

-f format
    Select output format. The following formats are available: html (HTML format), hocr (hOCR HTML format), native (native Cuneiform 2000), rtf (RTF format), smarttext (plain text with TeX paragraphs), text (plain text). The default is plain text.

-l language
    By default Cuneiform recognizes English text. To change the language use the command line switch -l followed by a language code (typically an ISO 639-2 three-letter code). The following languages are supported:
    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

-o output
    If you do not define an output file with the -o switch, Cuneiform writes the result to a file ‘cuneiform-out.format’. The file extension depends on your output format.

INPUT FORMAT
Cuneiform can process any single-page image that GraphicsMagick knows how to open. Please consult the gm(1) manual page for the comprehensive list of supported image formats.

HOMEPAGE
More information 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).