On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > > >>> Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c > > >>> > > >>> Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the > > >>> gif sample I received: > > >>> > > >>> spamassassin -t <ocr-gif.eml giftopnm: error reading magic > > >>> number (null): EOF / read error reading magic number Broken > > >>> pipe > > Your netpbm seems very old, I am using 10.34. This could be the cause, > > try the newest version, though I can't guarrantee that this is the > > cause. If that doesn't work, try saving the gif image from the > > ocr-gif.eml sample and run the commands manually over the file to see > > which step fails. > > Thanks. I removed the RHEL rpm for netpbm, installed 10.26 from source > (10.34 did not like RHEL 3 OS it seems) but still have issues with the gif > file. If anyone has a working system for RHEL 3 (centOS 3) and the new OCR > plugin, please post how you got it working. Thanks, and thanks for a great > plugin.
FYI, I figured this problem out. I installed netpbm to /usr/local/netpbm/ and gocr was not able to find all the files easily. I reinstalled netpbm to just /usr/local, recompiled gocr, and it works for the gifs now without a problem. :) Rob
