{see script}
ocube.tar.gz (script, info, .conf file, readme)
tesseract.tar.gz (precomiled tesseract; tested on ubuntu 6.06 and fedora 5)

concerns: OCR, tesseract, wrapper
depends: tesseract, Image magick

Usage: ocube [OPTION] file1 file2 ...

converts files to tif, scans them with tesseract and outputs the text on STDOUT

OPTIONS:

-t TIF-DIR

saves converted TIF images in target-directory TIF-DIR

-o TESS-DIR

saves files created by tesseract in TESS-DIR

-i <FILE>

define input file (otherwise STDIN)

-f FILE

saves all text output in file FILE  (messages on STOUT)

-s

silent; no output on STDOUT 

-c

convert with fill white, resize, sigmoidal-contrast, etc..

-l

save error messages in ocube.error.log instead of showing them on STDERR

-L <file>

save error messages in <file>

-e

exclude files found in ocube.error.log. Avoids rescanning of files that were processed already.

-E <file>

same as -e but with file <file>