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Fast OCR of TIFF and PDF documents.

ocr [options] filename

Usage examples:

  • ocr "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\test.tif"
  • ocr --output-file ocr_result.pdf c:\documents\test.pdf
  • ocr --secure --user abcabc --owner xyzxyz --pdf --print 1 --rtf test.tif

Allowed options

Protection options

-s [ --secure ]

Enables security with encryption level of 128.

-u [ --user ] arg

User password for document.
With it, the user has access only to the document elements which have been enabled with the designated permissions.

-o [ --owner ] arg

Owner password for document.

With it, the user has access to the entire document. If the owner and user passwords are the same, the user password will be used.

--extract

The user has access to document content copying and extraction.

--change arg (=0)

Access rights of the user with regards to document changes and alterations. This parameter may have the following values:

0   Not allowed.
1   Only Document Assembly.
2   Only Form Field Fill-in or Signing.
3   Comment Authoring, Form Field Fill-in or Signing.
4   General Editing, Comment & Form Field Authoring.

--print arg (=0)

Printing permissions for the user. This parameter may have any of the following values:

0   Not allowed.
1   Low resolution.
2   Fully allowed.

Compression options

--comp-flate

Compress text data using the Flate method.

If comp-ascii is also true, compressed data will be encoded by ASCII85 method.

--comp-ascii

Encode all binary data by the ASCII85 method.

--comp-mono arg (=2)

Specifies the compression method for monochrome (1 bit per pixel) images. This parameter may have the following values:

0   No compression.
1   Use CCITT Fax Mode 3 method.
2   Use CCITT Fax Mode 4 method.
3   Use Run Length compression method.
4   Use Flate (ZIP) method.

Properties options

--title arg

Title field of the output document.

--author arg

Author field of the output document.

--subject arg

Subject field of the output document.

--keywords arg

Keywords field of the output document.

Miscellaneous options

--output-file arg

Output file Intelliant OCR uses for result.

--output-dir arg

Output directory Intelliant OCR uses for result.
Normally output files are saved in their original folder.

--replace

Force replacement of input file by output file (when they have the same name).

--pdf

Save the results of recognition in PDF format (image + text). This is the default.

--ascii

Save the results of recognition in ASCII format.
Incompatible with smart-ascii (output file has the same extension).

--smart-ascii

Save the results of recognition in Smart ASCII format (tries to produce text as much like the original image as possible).

--rtf

Save the results of recognition in RTF format.

--tiff

Extract pdf images and save the results in TIFF multipage format.

--error-file arg

Error file Intelliant OCR uses for errors and warnings.
Normally errors and warnings are output to "stderr".

--language arg (=en)

Language to be used in both recognition and spelling checking. It may have the following values:

en
de
fr
sv
es
da
it
pt
nl

English
German
French
Swedish
Spanish
Danish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

--verbose

Write a line of text for each and every operation (should only be enabled for troubleshooting sessions).

--about

Produce version details.

--register

Show the Enter Key dialog, and lets the user enter a key or cancel.

-h [ --help ]

Produce help message.

 

Configuration file

If you want to always pass an additional command line element, you can alternatively create a configuration file with common settings which will be used together with the command line (see example file named "ocr.cfg" located in application folder).


Intelliant OCR commandline utility, version 1.0 RC1. Copyright © 2006

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