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UNICHARSET_EXTRACTOR(1)
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NAME
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unicharset_extractor - Reads box or plain text files to extract the unicharset.
SYNOPSIS
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*unicharset_extractor* [--output_unicharset filename] [--norm_mode mode] box_or_text_file [...]
Where mode means:
1=combine graphemes (use for Latin and other simple scripts)
2=split graphemes (use for Indic/Khmer/Myanmar)
3=pure unicode (use for Arabic/Hebrew/Thai/Tibetan)
DESCRIPTION
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Tesseract needs to know the set of possible characters it can output.
To generate the unicharset data file, use the unicharset_extractor
program on training pages bounding box files or a plain text file:
unicharset_extractor fontfile_1.box fontfile_2.box ...
The unicharset will be put into the file './unicharset' if no output filename is provided.
*NOTE* Use the appropriate norm_mode based on the language.
SEE ALSO
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tesseract(1), unicharset(5)
<https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract>
HISTORY
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unicharset_extractor first appeared in Tesseract 2.00.
COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2006, Google Inc.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
AUTHOR
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The Tesseract OCR engine was written by Ray Smith and his research groups
at Hewlett Packard (1985-1995) and Google (2006-present).