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cuneiform package

Package a libmagick++-enabled version of cuneiform

Bug #654767 reported by FriedChicken on 2010-10-04

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cuneiform (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Stefano Rivera
	Lucid	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cuneiform

Without libmagick++-support (libmagick++-dev has to be installed at compile time) cuneiform will only perform on bmp files.

This wouldn't be such a big problem if it wanted the BMP files in a very special way. A simple "convert"-command is not enough:
   $ convert blop.jpg blop.bmp
   $ cuneiform -l ger -f smarttext /tmp/blop.bmp
   Cuneiform for Linux 0.7.0
   /tmp/blop.bmpis a compressed BMP. Only uncompressed BMP files are supported.
   Please convert your BMP to uncompressed V3 format and try again.
   $ convert blop.jpg BMP3:blop.bmp
   $ cuneiform -l ger -f smarttext /tmp/blop.bmp
   Cuneiform for Linux 0.7.0
   /tmp/blop.bmpis a compressed BMP. Only uncompressed BMP files are supported.
   Please convert your BMP to uncompressed V3 format and try again.

So I guess it would be the best (and easiest) to enable libmagick++ and let cuneiform do the conversion job.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: cuneiform 0.7.0+dfsg-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 4 20:35:41 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cuneiform

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lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/cuneiform

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FriedChicken (domlyons) wrote on 2010-10-04:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (608 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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FriedChicken (domlyons) wrote on 2010-10-04:

#2

As I found ou on http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp the conversion can be done using
$ convert blop.jpg ppm:- | convert - BMP3:image.bpm

Now cuneiform takes the BMP file. But I guess that's not an usual workaround a normal user who just wants to OCR a few documents will try... So the problem persists.

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote on 2010-10-04:

#3

This appears to have been caused by a missing pkg-config during the lucid build. A rebuild / sync on maverick will solve it, and an SRU with pkg-config added to BD should sort out lucid.

Changed in cuneiform (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Stefano Rivera (stefanor)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in cuneiform (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote on 2010-10-04:

#4

cuneiform_0.7.0+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1.debdiff Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

Maverick sync tracked in LP: #654819

SRU Patch attached.

Changed in cuneiform (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-10-05:

#5

I synced the new package into maverick.

Changed in cuneiform (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released
tags:	added: verification-needed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2010-10-05: Please test proposed package

#6

Accepted cuneiform into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote on 2010-10-06:

#7

Looks good to me. Build logs show linking against libmagick++ and it can now OCR PNGs

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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FriedChicken (domlyons) wrote on 2010-10-06:

#8

Yes, works in maverick, too. Tank you!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-10-12:

#9

This bug was fixed in the package cuneiform - 0.7.0+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1

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cuneiform (0.7.0+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

* Build-Depend on pkg-config (LP: #654767)
-- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:42:07 +0200

Changed in cuneiform (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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