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UNICHARSET_EXTRACTOR(1) 				 UNICHARSET_EXTRACTOR(1)

NAME
     unicharset_extractor  -  Reads  box  or  plain  text  files  to extract the
     unicharset.

SYNOPSIS
     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
     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
     tesseract(1), unicharset(5)

     https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract.html

HISTORY
     unicharset_extractor first appeared in Tesseract 2.00.

COPYING
     Copyright	(C) 2006, Google Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version
     2.0

AUTHOR
     The Tesseract OCR engine was written by Ray Smith and his	research  groups
     at Hewlett Packard (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).

				   08/27/2026		 UNICHARSET_EXTRACTOR(1)

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