ocrfeeder-cli(1)

ocrfeeder-cli1

Command line interface for ocrfeeder, a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

Usage

ocrfeeder-cli [OPTIONS]

Overview

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.

Options

Generic program information

--version

Show program version number and exit

-h, --help

Show help message and exit

Required options

-o OUTPUT_FILE, --output=OUTPUT_FILE

Name for the generated file

Other options

-i IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...], --images=IMAGE1 [IMAGE2 ...]

Images to be recognized

-f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT

Format for the generated document: PDF, HTML, ODT, TXT or SPDF (searchable PDF)

-e ENGINE, --engine=ENGINE

The OCR engine to be used. Options are: GOCR or Ocrad

-l LANGUAGE, --language=LANGUAGE

The language according to the ISO-639-1. For example "pt" for Portuguese or "en" for English

--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

Folders

~/.config/ocrfeeder/engines/

Folder to hold the engines' configuration files

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–8
  3. 9–Arch

--version since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

--format until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --o until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Author

This manpage has been written by Joaquim Rocha <[email protected]> and Alberto Garcia <[email protected]>

From ocrfeeder 0.8.5-11 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.