WatchOCR

WatchOCR uses cuneiform, and exactimage to create text searchable PDFs from image only PDFs and Tiffs. WatchOCR can be remotely configured to monitor a watched folder for newly scanned PDFs for OCR conversion.

WatchOCR can be remotely configured to monitor a watched folder for newly scanned PDFs for OCR conversion.

Forked from rlangner's script.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/watchocr/

##Prequisites

• cuneiform
• exactimage
• ghostscript
• unpaper
• libtiff-tools
• unzip
• aspell-en (or other language)
• Optional:
  • oracle-java6-installer (1)
  • ant (1)
  • ZXing-1.6 (1)

Installation

• Download zip then extract
• Copy watchocr and img2pdf into /usr/bin and make it executable

Appendix

(1) for qrcode file rename