How to use Ocropus to create HTML Book Scan output

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1. 

   Michelle

   May 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM

   Thanks for this! I’m new to Ubuntu and have been trying very hard to figure out how to use OCRopus. I’m wondering if by skipping the very last line “ocropus buildhtml out/ > book.html” if one would end up with a simple text file? If so, it’s an easy matter to convert to epub using Sigil software.

   
   
2. 

   Erik

   June 7, 2010 at 9:06 PM

   @Michelle
   Very true, Michelle. Glad you liked the post. If you skip the last step, you can combine all the text files like so:

   find out -name \*.txt -exec cat {} >> out.txt \;

   That should make you an out.txt you can open in Sigil. Hope that helps.

   
   
3. 

   Mike

   August 16, 2010 at 9:01 PM

   Hey I tried the ocropus on a fresh install of 10.04 but don’t have this book2pages script as part of it. Is that something you wrote yourself??

   
   
4. 

   Erik

   August 16, 2010 at 10:55 PM

   Hey,
   Perhaps the version in 10.04 doesn’t have that feature. Maybe they changed the codebase. I haven’t tried it in a while, so I don’t have an answer for you. Thanks for letting me know, though!

   
   
5. 

   Anders Branderud

   April 11, 2011 at 1:19 PM

   Hello Erik!

   I would like to write a C++-program that takes a multi paged-tiff-image (with multiple columns) as input; and creates a txt/html-file as output.

   Do you know how I can do that?

   Thanks!
   Anders Branderud

   
   
6. 

   Erik

   May 11, 2011 at 8:26 PM

   This is syntactically incorrect, but you get the idea:
   int main(int argc, char** argv)
   {
   if(argc < 2) return 1;
   exec("convert %s %s.pdf", argv[1], argv[1]);
   exec("pdf2text %s.pdf %s.txt", argv[1], argv[1]);
   return 0;
   }

   Compile and run it with the original tiff as a parameter, have imagemagick and pdf2text installed, and you’re done.

   
   
7. 

   test

   November 20, 2011 at 10:44 PM

   I am trying to use ocropus-0.4.tar.gz and understand how to do. It is different with instruction given above. I could not find any doc regarding how to on google.

   Any help please.

   
   
8. 

   Erik

   November 20, 2011 at 11:39 PM

   OK I tried, I really tried. I got as far as this

   make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ocr-autoclean/ocr-orientation.cc', needed by `ocr-orientation.o'.  Stop.

   Before that I was trying to generate a patch, since the package doesn’t even compile if it configures (a problem, indeed), but you should really use the current trunk or a tag in their repository: https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/source/checkout

   Here’s a list of stuff I had to do to even start getting it to compile. It should be helpful with the new versions as well:

   # if there's a iulib included in the source, install it rather than the one from your distribution.  The debian one failed for me.
   sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-dev libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev libleptonica-dev libgsl0-dev
   # Then, build ocropus.  It might work...

   Sorry if this isn’t enough information, but it will get you started. Post any errors you get here, and I can try and help you more.