OCR Shop XTR™ Lite is a command-line interface driven OCR program based on the same ScanSoft® recognition technology as OCR Shop XTR and the OCR Shop XTR/API.
OCR Shop XTR Lite comes with an installer, which places the executable and resource files (such as language, character set, and licensing files) on the system.
Operating System Support:
| Sun Solaris™ SPARC® (Solaris™ 2.7+) |
| Linux™ x86 (Kernel 2.0 and higher) |
Input:
One input file is passed to the program at a time. Supported input formats include:
- Multipage and single page TIFF files
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
- JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group File Interchange Format)
- PDF (Portable document format)*
- PS (Postscript)*
- PBM (Portable BitMap)
- PNG (Portable network Graphics Format)
- PPM (Portable PixMap)
- Rasterfile
- SGI-RGB (Silicon Graphics image file format)
- XWD
- X11
* PDF and PS input are licensed as add-on features.
Output:
In each run of OCR Shop XTR Lite, one output file is generated. A multipage page input file will result in one multipage output file, just as a one page input file will result in one output file.
The output format is ASCII or Unicode text.
An output file will overwrite any pre-existing file of the same name.
Recognition and processing:
Preprocessing and recognition options are set to fully automatic, in order to provide the best results for a wide variety of input images.
Documents are recognized in English by default, but over 50 different languages are available. The user may specify one or more languages on the command-line.
Licensing:
OCR Shop XTR Lite is licensed to a specific machine based on that computer's machine ID. Licensing controls the number of concurrent instances permitted, as well as features such as PDF/PS input and languages.
Usage:
The command-line options for OCR Shop XTR Lite include the output filename and the input filename:
xtrclilite <inputFileName> <outputFileName> [options]
Available options are:
| -l <languagename,...> | Language used for recognition; multiple languages from the same code page may be specified and should be separated by commas. |
| -o unicode|ascii | Output format |
Special options provide help and version information:
| --help | Help |
| --version | Version information |
Running OCR Shop XTR Lite to process an image is equivalent to running OCR Shop XTR with the following command-line:
ocrxtr -out_text_name=[outputFileName] [inputFileName]
OCR Shop XTR Lite returns zero on success or a negative number on error.
Errors may be caused by invalid input files, missing parameters, or an invalid license.
Supported Languages:
Multiple languages may be used at once, if they come from the same code page. If a language is not supported by ASCII text, Unicode output must be selected.
During software evaluations, all languages are available. On purchase, OCR Shop XTR Lite comes with one language; additional languages may be purchased.
| Afrikaans | Albanian | Aymara |
| Basque | Breton | Bulgarian |
| Byelorussian | Catalan | Croatian |
| Czech | Danish | Dutch |
| English | Estonian | Faroese |
| Finnish | Flemish | French |
| Frisian - West | Friulian | Gaelic |
| Galician | German | Greek |
| Greenlandic | Hawaiian | Hungarian |
| Icelandic | Indonesian | Italian |
| Kurdish (Latin) | Latin | Latvian |
| Lithuanian | Macedonian (Cyrillic) | Malaysian |
| Norwegian | Pigin English | Polish |
| Portugese | Romanian | Russian |
| Serbian | Serbo-Croatian | Slovak |
| Slovenian | Sorbian - Lower | Sorbian - Upper |
| Spanish | Swahili | Swedish |
| Tahitian | Turkish | Ukranian |
| Welsh | Zulu |
